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god

UK /ɡɒd/noun, verb

god is spelled G-O-D: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 372 times per million words in written English, the 242nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, god means “A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of god is gods.

How many letters and syllables are in god?

Letters3: G-O-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing372 times per million words; the 242nd 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 god?

God appears 372 times per million words in written English, the 242nd 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 god?

  • UK /ɡɒd/
  • UK /ɡɔːd/
  • British /ɡɔd/

God 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-god.ogg, En-uk-God.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with god?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as god from its last stressed vowel (/ɒd/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dog.

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 god

  • gods plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • gawd
  • g-d
  • godding participle, present
  • godded participle, past

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

What does god mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.

    The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.

  2. 2

    A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette.

  3. 3

    Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.

    Leo Messi is my god!

  4. 4

    A person in a very high position of authority, importance or influence; a powerful ruler or tyrant.

  5. 5

    informalA person who is exceptionally skilled in a particular activity.

    He is the god of soccer!

  6. 6

    informalAn exceedingly handsome man.

    Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.

  7. 7

    The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.

verb

  1. 1

    To idolize.

    a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus". To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.

  2. 2

    To deify.

noun

as God
  1. 1

    A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.

    A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.

interjection

as God
  1. 1

    Ellipsis of oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.

    God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!

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

God in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdieu, divinité (deity), idole (idol), idolâtrer (idolize), déifier (deify), Dieu (an omnipotent being)
GermanGott, Göttin (deity), Idol (idol)
Portuguesedeus (deity), ídolo (idol), idolatrar (idolize), deificar (deify), Deus (an omnipotent being)
Spanishdios (deity), endiosar, idolatrar (idolize), deificar (deify)

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 god come from?

Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin.

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

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