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Pronunciation
-ouər, /-aʊər/, /-aU@r/
Notes
- The OED, MW, and other dictionaries distinguish this monosyllabic rhyme from disyllabic /-aʊ.ə(ɹ)/ by the absence of a stress mark; that does not mean that these words do not have stress.
- In accents with glide weakening or triphthong smoothing, words ending in /-ɑː(ɹ)/, /-ɑː/, and /-æ/ may also be rhymes for words on this page.
Rhymes
One syllable
- Daur (also pronounced as two syllables)
- dour (also pronounced as two syllables)
- flour (also pronounced as two syllables)
- hour (also pronounced as two syllables)
- lour (also pronounced as two syllables, written lower)
- our (contrastive pronunciation, also pronounced as two syllables)
- scour (also pronounced as two syllables)
- sour (also pronounced as two syllables)
Two syllables
Five syllables