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morrow

/ˈmɑɹoʊ/verb

morrow is spelled M-O-R-R-O-W: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, morrow means “To dawn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in morrow?

Letters6: M-O-R-R-O-W
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is morrow?

Morrow appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce morrow?

  • UK /ˈmɒɹəʊ/
  • British /ˈmɔɹəw/
  • US /ˈmɑɹoʊ/

Morrow has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

What rhymes with morrow?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as morrow from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹoʊ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of morrow

  • morrows present, singular, he/she/it
  • morrowing participle, present
  • morrowed participle, past

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

What does morrow mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To dawn

noun

  1. 1

    archaicThe next or following day.

  2. 2

    archaicMorning.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:morrow.

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

Morrow in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlendemain (the next or following day), matin (morning)
GermanMorgen (the next or following day)
Portugueseamanhã (the next or following day), manhã (morning)
Spanishmañana (morning)

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.

Where does morrow come from?

From Middle English morwe, apocopic form of morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz; compare Dutch morgen and German Morgen. Doublet of morgen and morn.

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

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