tows
/toʊz/noun, verb
tows is spelled T-O-W-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tows means “plural of tow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in tows?
| Letters | 4: T-O-W-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 tows?
Tows appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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 tows?
- UK /təʊz/
- US /toʊz/
- UK /taʊz/
Tows 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).
What rhymes with tows?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tows from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stow, twos, swot.
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 tows mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of tow
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of tow
noun
- 1
take-off warning system
noun
- 1
plural of TOW
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).