rowen
/ˈɹaʊən/
"rowen" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rowen” is uncommon English (frequency #92,011 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,011
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A second crop of hay (within a growing season).
Corpus desk
Index EN-rowen · rowen · English
rowen · rank #92,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,011
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rooty
Nearest frequency peer: rooty (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “rowen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rootkit
rootkit
7,992 corpus weight
- rooty
rooty
7,991 corpus weight
- rowen
rowen
7,990 corpus weight
- RSF
RSF
7,989 corpus weight
- ruleset
ruleset
7,988 corpus weight
- Russias
Russias
7,986 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rowen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rowen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹaʊən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rowen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rowen is uncommon English at frequency #92,011 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹaʊən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rowen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”). The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractab… The correct English form is rowen, spelled R-O-W-E-N.
Definition
- 1A second crop of hay (within a growing season).
- 2A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rowen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.
Etymology
From Middle English rewayn, from Anglo-Norman rewain, from an Old Northern French variant of Old French regain (“an increase”), from re- + gaigner (“to till, win”). The alternative forms represent replacement of unanalysable final /ən/ with the more tractable suffixes -et, -ing; roughing presumably relies on a lost pronunciation of rough as /ˈɹaʊ/.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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