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snew

/snjuː/verb

snew is spelled S-N-E-W: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, snew means “simple past of snow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in snew?

Letters4: S-N-E-W
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is snew?

Snew appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 snew?

  • /snjuː/
  • /snuː/

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

What rhymes with snew?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as snew.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: news.

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 snew

  • snews present, singular, he/she/it
  • snewing participle, present
  • snewed participle, past

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

What does snew mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    simple past of snow (a form of snow)

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo snow.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo abound.

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

Where does snew come from?

See snow.

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

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