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fog

/fɑɡ/noun, verb

fog is spelled F-O-G: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fog means “A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fog is fogs.

How many letters and syllables are in fog?

Letters3: F-O-G
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 fog?

Fog appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 fog?

  • UK /fɒɡ/
  • /fɔɡ/
  • US /fɑɡ/

Fog 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-fog.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fog?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fog from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡ/):

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 fog

  • fogs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fogging participle, present
  • fogged participle, past

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

What does fog mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

    a bank of fog

  2. 2

    A mist or film clouding a surface.

  3. 3

    A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

    He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.

  4. 4

    A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

  5. 5

    Distance fog.

  6. 6

    A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

  7. 7

    UKTall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.

  8. 8

    ScotlandMoss.

verb

  1. 1

    To become covered with or as if with fog.

  2. 2

    To become obscured in condensation or water.

    The mirror fogged every time he showered.

  3. 3

    To become dim or obscure.

  4. 4

    To make dim or obscure.

  5. 5

    To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.

  6. 6

    To cover with or as if with fog.

  7. 7

    To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

  8. 8

    To obscure in condensation or water.

  9. 9

    To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).

  10. 10

    To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

  11. 11

    obsoleteTo practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

noun

as FOG
  1. 1

    Initialism of fat, oil, and grease.

  2. 2

    Initialism of frequency of gobbledygook: the commonness of long and complicated words in a text, as measured by systems like the Gunning fog index.

adjective

as FOG
  1. 1

    Initialism of fraudulently-obtained genuine, a type of illicit passport.

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

How do you abbreviate fog?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of fog: F.

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

Fog in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbrouillard, brume (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures…), voile (photography: blur on a developed photographic…)
GermanNebel (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures…), sich beschlagen, anlaufen (to become obscured in condensation or water)
Portuguesenevoeiro, névoa, neblina (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures…)
Spanishniebla (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures…)

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 fog come from?

Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin.

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

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