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eq

noun

eq is spelled E-Q: 2 letters. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, eq means “Abbreviation of equation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of eq is eqq or eqs.

How many letters and syllables are in eq?

Letters2: E-Q
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th 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 eq?

Eq appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 eq

  • eqq plural
  • eqs plural
  • eq.
  • eqs. plural

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

What does eq mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of equation.

noun

as EQ
  1. 1

    Initialism of emotional quotient: a metric similar to IQ but measuring one's perception of emotions or emotional intelligence.

  2. 2

    Initialism of educational quotient.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of equalization (adjusting the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal).

  4. 4

    Initialism of Elders' Quorum.

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

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