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Is yow a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word yow is a Scrabble US word. The word yow is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is yow a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word yow is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

Y4O1W4

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Yes. The word yow is a Words With Friends word. The word yow is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (1 found)

YOW,

2-letter words (4 found)

OW,OY,WO,YO,

You can make 5 words from yow according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of yow

yow oyw ywo wyo owy woy

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Definitions and meaning of yow

yow

Etymology 1

Noun

yow (plural yows)

  1. Alternative form of yowe

Etymology 2

Interjection

yow

  1. Expression of pain; ouch.
    Yow! I dropped it on my toe!
  2. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
    You've been divorced four times? Yow!
Synonyms
  • ouch, youch

Anagrams

  • Wyo.

Huave

Noun

yow

  1. water

Derived terms

References

  • Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • yowe, you, youe, yo, yoe, yogh, yaw, yew, yhu, yu, yw, yhow, ȝou, ȝow, ȝouȝ, ȝowȝ, ȝo, ȝowe, ȝu, ȝw, ȝue, ȝiow, ȝeu, ȝew, ȝewe, ȝaw, ȝhow, ȝhowe, ȝiu, ȝeow, ȝehw, ȝuw, gow, gu, giu, geu, geau, eou, eow, eo, eowe, eu, euwȝ, ou, ow, æu, owe, hou, heou, heu

Etymology

From Old English ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /juː/, /jiu̯/
  • (Early ME) IPA(key): /uː/, /iu̯/
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /ju/

Pronoun

yow (nominative ye)

  1. Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
    • c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
  2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

Descendants

  • English: you
  • Scots: you

See also

References

  • “you, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain; most likely from Old English ēow.

Pronoun

yow (personal, emphatic)

  1. (South Scots) you

See also

  • ee

Whitesands

Noun

yow

  1. turtle

References

  • Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 81

Wolof

Pronunciation

Pronoun

yow

  1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

See also

Yapese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɔw/

Pronoun

yow

  1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

See also

References

  • Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135

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