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5-letter words ending in OW
There are 19 5-letter words ending in OW in the standard word-game list. The most common are throw, allow, below, widow, arrow, elbow. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| throw | the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) | 11 |
| allow | make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | 8 |
| below | in or to a place that is lower | 10 |
| widow | a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried | 12 |
| arrow | a mark to indicate a direction or relation | 8 |
| elbow | hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | 10 |
| aglow | softly bright or radiant | 9 |
| cahow | An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel. | 13 |
| embow | To bend like a bow; to curve. | 12 |
| endow | give qualities or abilities to | 9 |
| kotow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 12 |
| miaow | the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | 10 |
| nohow | in no manner; in no way | 11 |
| oxbow | the land inside an oxbow bend in a river | 17 |
| resow | To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted. | 8 |
| serow | short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia | 8 |