analogous
/əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/adjective
analogous is spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is analagous: about 390 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Analogous is an adjective meaning “Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or…”.
How many letters and syllables are in analogous?
| Letters | 9: A-N-A-L-O-G-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, analagous, about 390 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 do you spell analogous?
Analogous is spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for analogous in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is analogous?
Analogous appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 analogous?
- US /əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/
- US /əˈnæl.ə.d͡ʒəs/
- /əˈnɛl.ə.ɡəs/
Analogous has 4 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-analogous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with analogous?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as analogous from its last stressed vowel (/æləɡəs/):
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 analogous
- more analogous comparative
- most analogous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does analogous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".)
Analogous tendencies in arts and in manners.
- 2
Functionally similar, but arising through convergent evolution rather than being homologous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Analogous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having analogy; corresponding to something else:
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 analogous come from?
From Latin analogus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́λογος (ănắlogos); Its English equivalent is analogue + -ous. The application to similar features of organisms is nearly as old as the general sense. Recognizably modern uses of the second sense, distinguishing analogous from homologous, appear in the mid-19th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).