flog
/flɑɡ/verb, noun
flog is spelled F-L-O-G: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, flog means “To whip or scourge as punishment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in flog?
| Letters | 4: F-L-O-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 41,660th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 flog?
Flog appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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 flog?
- UK /flɒɡ/
- US /flɑɡ/
Flog 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-AU_ck1_flog.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-flog.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with flog?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as flog from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: golf.
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 flog
- flogs present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- flogging participle, present
- flogged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does flog mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To whip or scourge as punishment.
- 2
To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- 3
UKslangTo sell.
- 4
AustraliaTo steal something.
- 5
AustraliaTo defeat easily or convincingly.
- 6
AustraliaTo overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
- 7
To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
noun
- 1
AustraliaderogatoryinformalA contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
- 2
A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Flog in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | flageller, fouetter |
| German | geißeln, peitschen |
| Portuguese | chicotear, açoitar |
| Spanish | azotar, flagelar, latigar, fustigar , esquilmar, explotar |
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 flog come from?
From Middle English *floggen (suggested by flogge (“hammer, sledge”), from Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukkōną (“to beat”), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *flōkaną. The original zero-grade iterative *flakkōną had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack (“to beat”), also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap". Cognate with Scots flog (“a blow, stripe, flogging”, noun), Scots flog (“thin strip of wood”), Norwegian flak (“a piece torn off, strip”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).