bowels

bow·els/ˈbaʊ.əlz/noun

bowels is spelled B-O-W-E-L-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables (bow·els). It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bowels means “The deepest or innermost part” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in bowels?

Letters	6: B-O-W-E-L-S
Syllables	2: bow·els
In writing	1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bowels?

Bowels appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce bowels?

US /ˈbaʊ.əlz/

Bowels has 2 syllables, split bow·els in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bowels.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does bowels mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
The deepest or innermost part.
down in the bowels of the Earth
2
The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
the project’s bowels
3
The intestines.
4
Compassion, sympathy.
5
obsoleteThe body as the source of offspring.
6
plural of bowel (a form of bowel)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Bowels in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
German	Tiefen, Eingeweide, Innerstes, Verborgenes (deepest or innermost part), Wesenskern, innerstes Wesen (concept or quality that defines something at…)
Portuguese	entranhas (deepest or innermost part), intestinos (intestines)
Spanish	profundidades, entrañas (deepest or innermost part), intestinos, vientre (intestines)
French	entrailles, boyaux (intestines)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.