miaow

noun, verb

miaow is a noun meaning “UK spelling of meow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-A-O-W, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of miaow is miaows.

What does miaow mean?

noun

1
datedUK spelling of meow.

verb

1
datedUK spelling of meow.

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

Forms of miaow

miaows plural, present, singular, he/she/it
miaowing participle, present
miaowed participle, past

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

How common is miaow?

Miaow appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.

miaow0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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