analogue
adjective, noun
analogue is spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-U-E: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “analog vs analogue” about 1,300 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, analogue means “Alternative spelling of analog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in analogue?
| Letters | 8: A-N-A-L-O-G-U-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How common is analogue?
Analogue appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 analogue?
Analogue 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).
Words people confuse with analogue
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: analog.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of analogue
- analogues plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does analogue mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
CommonwealthAlternative spelling of analog.
noun
- 1
Something that bears an analogy to something else.
- 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
Alternative spelling of analog (“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).
Where does analogue come from?
Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -logue. See analog.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).