ower
/aʊæ/noun, preposition, adverb, adjective
ower is a noun meaning “A person who owes something, especially money” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-W-E-R, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ower is owers.
What does ower mean?
noun
- 1
A person who owes something, especially money.
preposition
- 1
over
Get ower thor noo!
adverb
- 1
over
She's ower canny hor, like
adjective
- 1
overly, too
Thats ower much that!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ower?
- /aʊæ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ower
- owers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ower?
Ower appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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).
Where does ower come from?
From Middle English owere, oȝere, awer, equivalent to owe + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).