iou

1. 1.

   an informal debt instrument; representing `I owe you'

   Broadernote

Other forms of iou

plural

ious·

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 iou

What does iou mean?

iou means "an informal debt instrument; representing `I owe you'".

How many syllables are in iou?

iou has 3 syllables: i-o-u. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˌaɪˌoʊˈju/.

Is iou a common word?

iou 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 iou?

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