ewe

Other forms of ewe

plural

ewes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ewe

What does ewe mean?

ewe means "a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ewe?

ewe has 1 syllable: ewe. In IPA it is /ˈju/.

Is ewe a common word?

ewe is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ewe?

10 words rhyme with ewe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.