OW in words: 15 lists of rimes for spelling activities

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Learn to spell while having fun. This ultimate guide of words with OW in them can be used for classroom games, flashcards, posters, poetry and journaling. Get ready to make spelling fun.

The words that include OW may contain digraphs, trigraphs and graphemes with 4 letters. Some of them are rimes that rhyme and some of the rimes don’t rhyme. Before we move on to the OW word lists, let’s explain some of these terms.

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What is a grapheme

A grapheme is the letter or letters used to represent the phoneme in writing. Phoneme is the smallest sound you hear in a word. The graphemes e, ea and ai represent the same middle phoneme in red /r/-/e/-/d/, head /h/-/ea/-/d/ and said /s/-/ai/-/d/.

Phonemes that are represented by different graphemes can make learning to read or spell very difficult for some people. This is because spelling rules don’t apply to words that contain graphemes with more than one letter.

What is a digraph

A digraph is a grapheme made by two letters that represent one sound. Some are:

ai in wait
ay in day
ea in meal
ee in feet
ei in vein
ey in monkey
ew in stew
ie in field
oa in boat
oo in took
ou in bought
ow in tow
ch in chat
gh in ghost
sh in ship
ss in passion
th in that
wh in what
wr in write

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What is a trigraph

A trigraph is a grapheme made by three letters that represent one sound. Some of these are:

air in hair
are in share
ear in bear
eir in their
eig in reign
dge in fudge
ght in bought
oar in roar
oor in door
igh in sigh
ure in cure
tch in catch
gue in vague

What is a grapheme with 4 letters

A grapheme with 4 letters represents one sound in a word. It does not have an official name but it is referred to as a ‘quadgraph’ by many teachers. Some of these are augh, eigh, ough, ngue and heir.

augh in caught, naught daughter
eigh in eight, weigh, height
ough in through, although, though
ngue in tongue, cangue, gangue
heir in heirdom, heirloom

What is rime

Rime is the vowel and letters that come after the onset in a syllable. Onset is the letter or blend before a vowel in a syllable. It can be one, two or three consonants.

In cat, the onset is c. In drain, the onset is dr. In through, the onset is thr. In a word with 3 syllables like catalogue, the onsets are c, t and l.

In cat, the rime is at. In drain, the rime is ain. In through, the rime is ough. In catalogue, the rimes are at, al and ogue.

What is rhyme

Rhyme is the close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words. In poems, rhyme is commonly used at the end of the lines.

Words that rhyme with cat are fat, hat, sat and mat which all have the same rime – at. However, red, head and said also rhyme but don’t have the same rime – ed, ead and aid.

OW in the word

The 15 word lists below contain words with OW in them. When OW has one sound, it is a digraph. When you can hear both sounds, it is a diphthong.

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-ow

bow, now, elbow, wow, how, cow, vow, chow, owe, tow, know, show, snow, sow

-owl

owl, bowl, fowl, growl, howl, prowl, scowl

-own

brown, crown, down, drown, gown, grown, own, disown, town, uptown, thrown, known, clown, flown, mown, frown, renown, shown

-ows

browse, drowsy, frowsy, grows, flows, knows, glows

-d-ow

window, shadow, meadow

-l-ow

low, glow, below, flow, blow, slow

-r-ow

row, brow, crowd, throw, grow, crow

-all-ow

allow, swallow, shallow

-arr-ow

arrow, barrow, sparrow, narrow

-ell-ow

bellow, fellow, mellow, yellow

-ill-ow

pillow, willow

-oll-ow

follow, hollow

-orr-ow

sorrow, borrow

-ow-el

vowel, bowel, towel, trowel

-ow-er

flower, blower, power, tower, shower, powder, mower

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