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pow wow

noun

pow wow is spelled P-O-W-W-O-W: 6 letters. As a noun, pow wow means “Alternative spelling of powwow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pow wow is pow wows or pow-wows.

How many letters and syllables are in pow wow?

Letters6: P-O-W-W-O-W
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone 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).

Words people confuse with pow wow

Also written: powwow (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of pow wow

  • pow wows plural
  • pow-wows plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • pow-wowing participle, present
  • pow-wowed participle, past

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

What does pow wow mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of powwow.

noun

as Pow Wow
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of powwow.

noun

as pow-wow
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of powwow.

verb

as pow-wow
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of powwow.

noun

as Pow-Wow
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of powwow.

noun

as Pow wow
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of powwow.

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

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