sow

1. 1.

   an adult female hog

   Broaderswine

Other forms of sow

plural

sows·

past tense or participle

sown

present participle

sowing·

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 sow

What does sow mean?

sow means "place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sow?

sow has 1 syllable: sow. In IPA it is /ˈsaʊ/.

What is another word for sow?

Close synonyms include seed, inseminate, sow in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sow a common word?

sow is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 sow?

1 word rhymes with sow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.