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gov

/ɡʌv/noun

gov is spelled G-O-V: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gov means “Clipping of government” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gov is govs.

How many letters and syllables are in gov?

Letters3: G-O-V
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 gov?

Gov appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 gov?

  • /ɡʌv/
  • /ɡʊv/

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

What rhymes with gov?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as gov.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: vog.

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 gov

  • govs plural
  • gov.
  • gove
  • guv

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

What does gov mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangClipping of government.

  2. 2

    slangClipping of governor.

  3. 3

    slangA term of address to a person, usually a stranger or a superior.

noun

as GOV
  1. 1

    USInitialism of government-owned vehicle.

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

Where does gov come from?

Blend of gonad + ovary.

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

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