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got

/ɡɑt/verb

got is spelled G-O-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 813 times per million words in written English, the 132nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, got means “Expressing obligation; used with have” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in got?

Letters3: G-O-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing813 times per million words; the 132nd 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 got?

Got appears 813 times per million words in written English, the 132nd 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 got?

  • UK /ɡɒt/
  • British /ɡɔt/
  • US /ɡɑt/

Got 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-got.wav, En-us-got.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_got.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with got?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tog.

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 got

  • had past

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

What does got mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    Expressing obligation; used with have.

    I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.

  2. 2

    colloquialMust; have/has (to).

    I got to go study.

  3. 3

    colloquialnonstandardHave/has.

    They got a new car.

  4. 4

    Have; there is (indicates the possession or existence of something).

    You got problem is it?

  5. 5

    Marks the completive or experiential aspect.

    You got shower?

  6. 6

    Used as a marker of realis modality.

    I got go Taiwan next year.

  7. 7

    Used to emphasize that an action has been done.

    I got tell them just now.

  8. 8

    Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.

    I got cook meals for them.

  9. 9

    simple past of get (a form of get)

    We got the last bus home.

  10. 10

    past participle of get (a form of get)

    By that time we’d got very cold.

  11. 11

    simple past of git (a form of git)

noun

as GOT
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase or geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase.

  3. 3

    Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).

  4. 4

    Initialism of global offset table.

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

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