ou ow word list

How did our goat get up on this mountain tower?

Ou and ow often say the ouch sound, as in our, mountain, and tower. Read these words with your child and use them in sentences:

our     flour     power   tower

hour   flower   cower   scour

By the way, the word hour is from the ancient Greek word, hora, and has had a silent h since the time of the Roman gladiators.

Cower is probably from ancient Norse and Danish, meaning to squat down, make oneself small in a crouch, to cringe with fear: the mouse was brave and refused to cower as the coyote snarled and swung its paw. 

Scour comes from a Latin word meaning to run quickly while searching for something: the boy scoured the field for his missing key.

This ou ow rhyming word family also uses the ouch sound:

mount    mountain    surmount    count      county   counties   account

fount      fountain      dismount    amount   bounty   bounties   recount

Look at this ou ow ouch sound family, notice ge at the end says j:

lounge   scrounge         
l

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