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gar

/ɡɑɹ/noun, verb

gar is spelled G-A-R: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gar means “Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gar is gars.

How many letters and syllables are in gar?

Letters3: G-A-R
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 29,270th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 gar?

Gar appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th 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 gar?

  • UK /ɡɑː/
  • US /ɡɑɹ/

Gar 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with gar?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rag, arg.

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 gar

  • gars plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • garring participle, present
  • gart participle, past

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

What does gar mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUSAny of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.

  2. 2

    IrelandUKA garfish, Belone belone.

verb

  1. 1

    UKTo make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).

noun

as GAR
  1. 1

    Initialism of glycineamide ribonucleotide.

  2. 2

    Initialism of glutathione amide reductase.

  3. 3

    Initialism of gross annual revenue.

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

Gar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanKnochenhecht (a North or Central American fish of the family…)
Portuguesegar, peixe-lagarto (a North or Central American fish of the family…), peixe-agulha, agulha (the European fish Belone belone)

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 gar come from?

Clipping of garfish, from Middle English gare + fish.

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

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