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analog

UK /ˈænəˌlɒɡ/adjective, noun

analog is spelled A-N-A-L-O-G: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “analog vs analogue” about 1,300 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, analog means “In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in analog?

Letters6: A-N-A-L-O-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is analog?

Analog appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce analog?

  • UK /ˈænəˌlɒɡ/
  • British [ˈanəlɔɡ]
  • /ˈanəlɔɡ/

Analog has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-analog.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with analog

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

analog vs analogue1,300 G

Also written: analogue.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with analog?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as analog (/ænəlɒɡ/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: agonal.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of analog

  • analogue
  • analogs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does analog mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).

    an analog watch

  2. 2

    Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life.

    an analog (paper) map

noun

  1. 1

    Something that bears an analogy to something else.

  2. 2

    An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.

    See also: convergent evolution

  3. 3

    A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Analog in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchanalogique (represented by a continuously variable physical…), analogue (structural derivative)
Germananalog (represented by a continuously variable physical…), Analogon (something that bears an analogy)
Portugueseanalógico (represented by a continuously variable physical…), análogo (something that bears an analogy)
Spanishanalógico (represented by a continuously variable physical…), análogo (structural derivative)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does analog come from?

First attested in the early 19th century; from French analogue, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos, “proportionate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up to”) + λόγος (lógos, “ratio”). Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -log.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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