tows
/təʊz/
"tows" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tows” is uncommon English (frequency #69,527 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,527
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of tow
Corpus desk
Index EN-tows · tows · English
tows · rank #69,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,527
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH towner
Nearest frequency peer: towner (-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 “tows”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tortuga
Tortuga
30,477 corpus weight
- towner
towner
30,475 corpus weight
- tows
tows
30,474 corpus weight
- Toya
Toya
30,473 corpus weight
- Toyama
Toyama
30,472 corpus weight
- trackpad
trackpad
30,471 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tows” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tows |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /təʊz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tows” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tows is uncommon English at frequency #69,527 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /təʊz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of tow".
Zero misspellings are on record for tows in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is tows, spelled T-O-W-S.
Definition
- 1plural of tow
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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