owe

Other forms of owe

past tense

owed·

present participle

owing·

third person

owes·

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 owe

What does owe mean?

owe means "be obliged to pay or repay". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in owe?

owe has 1 syllable: owe. In IPA it is /ˈoʊ/.

Is owe a common word?

owe is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 owe?

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