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ECG

noun

ECG is spelled E-C-G: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ECG means “Initialism of electrocardiogram, electrocardiography, or electrocardiograph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ECG is ECGs.

How many letters and syllables are in ECG?

Letters3: E-C-G
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 34,063rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is ECG?

ECG appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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).

Forms of ECG

  • ECGs plural

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

What does ECG mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of electrocardiogram, electrocardiography, or electrocardiograph.

  2. 2

    Initialism of electronic character generator.

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

ECG in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense electrocardiogram:

LanguageWords
GermanEKG
SpanishECG

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.

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