sowing
/ˈsoʊɪŋ/noun, verb
sowing is spelled S-O-W-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sowing means “The act or process by which something is sown” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sowing is sowings.
How many letters and syllables are in sowing?
| Letters | 6: S-O-W-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 sowing?
Sowing appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th 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 sowing?
- UK /ˈsəʊɪŋ/
- US /ˈsoʊɪŋ/
Sowing 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sowing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sowing
Sounds like: sewing (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sowing?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sowing from its last stressed vowel (/oʊɪŋ/):
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 sowing
- sowings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sowing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process by which something is sown.
annual sowings of wheat
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of sow
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sowing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Process by which something is sown:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | semailles |
| German | Saat |
| Portuguese | sementeira |
| Spanish | siembra, sementera, sementero, semencera |
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.