OW closes a five letter word with a vowel and a consonant that behave as one sound, and Wordle players confirm the pair once both tiles turn green. Those letters fix the last two positions, so the 5 letter words ending in OW leave the opening three unsolved.
This is one of the smaller ending patterns in the game, which works in your favour on a board. Once the OW is green, Allow, Arrow, Below, Elbow, Endow, Throw and Widow cover most of what a Wordle answer is likely to be.
There are 27 five letter words ending in OW. Below, Throw, Elbow and Endow are the strongest Wordle guesses because none of them repeat a letter. Oxbow scores 17 in Scrabble, the highest of the group.
5 Letter Words Ending In OW
O and W take the final two slots as one sound, which leaves the first three letters carrying the guess.
| Ablow | Aglow | Allow | Arrow |
| Below | Cahow | Elbow | Embow |
| Endow | Ewhow | Indow | Kapow |
| Kotow | Miaow | Nohow | Oxbow |
| Resow | Scrow | Serow | Shrow |
| Strow | Sybow | Theow | Throw |
| Upbow | Widow | Yakow |
5 Letter Words Ending In OW For Wordle
Every word here uses five different letters, so one guess tests five positions at once.
| Below | Throw | Elbow |
| Endow | Aglow | Miaow |
| Kapow | Ablow | Serow |
| Cahow | Strow | Embow |
| Indow | Resow | Scrow |
| Shrow | Sybow | Theow |
Below and Throw give the widest letter spread. Elbow and Endow work well as second guesses, once a vowel is already green.
5 Letter Words Ending In OW For Scrabble
X and K carry the scoring here, and Oxbow reaches 17 before any board bonus.
| Word | Points |
|---|---|
| Oxbow | 17 |
| Yakow | 15 |
| Kapow | 14 |
| Ewhow | 14 |
| Sybow | 13 |
| Cahow | 13 |
| Widow | 12 |
| Upbow | 12 |
| Kotow | 12 |
| Embow | 12 |
| Throw | 11 |
| Theow | 11 |
| Shrow | 11 |
| Nohow | 11 |
| Scrow | 10 |
5 Letter Words Ending In OW And Their Meanings
Twenty of these words with what they mean.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ablow | In a blooming state |
| Aglow | Glowing with warmth or light |
| Allow | To permit |
| Arrow | A pointed shaft shot from a bow |
| Below | At a lower level |
| Cahow | A rare seabird of Bermuda |
| Elbow | The joint between the upper and lower arm |
| Embow | To arch or bend into a curve |
| Endow | To provide with a quality or a fund |
| Indow | To provide with a quality |
| Kapow | A sound made by a sudden blow |
| Kotow | To bow low in submission |
| Miaow | The cry of a cat |
| Nohow | In no way |
| Oxbow | A U shaped bend in a river |
| Resow | To sow seed again |
| Serow | A goat antelope of Asia |
| Sybow | A young onion |
| Throw | To send something through the air |
| Widow | A woman whose husband has died |
FAQs
The ones you meet most in everyday English are Allow, Arrow, Below and Elbow. Throw, Widow and Endow follow behind them.
There are 27 five letter words ending in OW in standard word game dictionaries. Only a handful of those are words most players already recognise, which makes this a friendly pattern once the ending is green.
Try Below. It tests B, E and L alongside the OW pair and uses five different letters. Throw covers T, H and R instead and works equally well.
The top score is 17 points before any board bonus, which Oxbow reaches. Yakow scores 15, and Kapow and Ewhow each reach 14.
Yes, two of them. Arrow doubles the R and Allow doubles the L, which makes them easy to overlook when you are testing new letters.
Six words open on a vowel. Ablow, Aglow, Allow, Arrow, Elbow and Endow all qualify, and Indow and Oxbow add two more with different vowels.
Cahow tends to defeat players, since it names a rare seabird that seldom appears outside birdwatching. Sybow and Serow cause similar trouble.
Yes, a few. Kapow, Miaow and Nohow take the open sound, while Allow also follows it, so the spelling alone will not tell you how a word is said.
