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shower

/ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/noun, verb

shower is spelled S-H-O-W-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shower means “A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shower is showers.

How many letters and syllables are in shower?

Letters6: S-H-O-W-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing32 times per million words; the 2,992nd 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 shower?

Shower appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd 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 shower?

  • UK /ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
  • /ˈʃuː.ɐ/
  • US /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/

As a noun (“One who shows”): /ˈʃəʊ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈʃoʊ.ɚ/.

Shower 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-au-shower.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-shower_(show).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with shower?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as shower from its last stressed vowel (/aʊəɹ/):

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 shower

  • showers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • showering participle, present
  • showered participle, past

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

What does shower mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.

    Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.

  2. 2

    A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

  3. 3

    An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

    I’m going to have a shower.

  4. 4

    A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

    a shower of sparks;  a meteor shower;  a Gatorade shower

  5. 5

    A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

    Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?

  6. 6

    A bridal shower.

    The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.

  7. 7

    A baby shower.

    Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves.

  8. 8

    A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.

    See also shower (juggling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  9. 9

    One who shows.

  10. 10

    An object or activity that is shown in a contest.

    That calf is going to be a great shower at the fair this year.

  11. 11

    slangA person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.

verb

  1. 1

    To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).

  2. 2

    To bathe using a shower.

  3. 3

    To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.

    He showered his new partner with expensive gifts.

  4. 4

    To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

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

How do you abbreviate shower?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of shower: SSS, shwr..

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

Shower in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaverse, ondée (brief fall of rain), douche (device for bathing), pluie (quantity of something that has characteristics…), bande (contemptible group of people or things), se doucher (to bathe using a shower)
GermanSchauer, Fälle (brief fall of rain), Dusche, Brause (device for bathing), (eine Dusche nehmen) Dusche (instance of using of this device), besprühen (to spray with)
Portugueseaguaceiro (brief fall of rain), chuveiro, duche (device for bathing), chuveirada, banho (instance of using of this device), regar (to spray with)
Spanishchubasco (brief fall of rain), ducha, regadera (device for bathing), ducharse (to bathe using a shower), duchar, rociar (to spray with)

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 shower come from?

From Middle English schour (“shower”), from Old English sċūr (“shower”), from Proto-West Germanic *skūru (“shower”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“storm, short shower”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north, north wind, cold wind, rain shower”).

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

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