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dogs

/dɔɡz/noun, verb

dogs is spelled D-O-G-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 59 times per million words in written English, the 1,758th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dogs means “Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in dogs?

Letters4: D-O-G-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing59 times per million words; the 1,758th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is dogs?

Dogs appears 59 times per million words in written English, the 1,758th 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 dogs?

  • UK /dɒɡz/
  • US /dɔɡz/
  • /dɑɡz/

Dogs has one syllable (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-dogs.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with dogs?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dogs (/ɔɡz/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gods.

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).

What does dogs mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USslangFeet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.

    My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.

  2. 2

    USslangToes

    Time to let the dogs out to play. (While taking off shoes.)

  3. 3

    A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.

    I lost money at the dogs last night.

  4. 4

    Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.

  5. 5

    plural of dog (a form of dog)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of dog (a form of dog)

noun

as DOGs
  1. 1

    plural of DOG (a form of DOG)

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

How do you abbreviate dogs?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of dogs: DPM.

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

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