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owie

/ˈaʊ(w)iː/interjection, noun

owie is an interjection meaning “Synonym of ow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-W-I-E, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does owie mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    Synonym of ow.

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUScolloquialA painful but minor injury.

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

How do you pronounce owie?

  • /ˈaʊ(w)iː/

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

Forms of owie

  • owies plural

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

How common is owie?

Owie appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).

Owie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchouille (ow), bobo, petite blessure (minor injury)
Portuguesedodói (minor injury)
Spanishcoco, ayayay, pupa (minor injury)

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 owie come from?

From ow + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).

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