snows
/snoʊz/noun, verb
snows is spelled S-N-O-W-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snows means “One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in snows?
| Letters | 5: S-N-O-W-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 snows?
Snows appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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 snows?
- UK /snəʊz/
- UK [snəʊ̯z]
- US /snoʊz/
Snows has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-snows.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with snows?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as snows from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):
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).
What does snows mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.
- 2
informalClipping of snow tires.
You’d better be wearing your snows next week.
- 3
datedA woman's pale-coloured breasts.
- 4
plural of snow
The snows in Alaska are quite different from the snows here.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of snow
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does snows come from?
From snow + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns; and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).