hag
/hæɡ/noun, verb
hag is spelled H-A-G: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hag means “A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hag is hags.
How many letters and syllables are in hag?
| Letters | 3: H-A-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 hag?
Hag appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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 hag?
- US /hæɡ/
- British /haɡ/
- Australia /hæːɡ/
Hag has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-hag.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hag?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hag from its last stressed vowel (/æɡ/):
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 hag
- hags plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- hagging participle, present
- hagged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hag mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
- 2
derogatoryAn ugly old woman.
- 3
derogatoryAn evil woman.
- 4
USderogatoryslangA woman.
- 5
A fury; a she-monster.
- 6
A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- 7
A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
- 8
obsoleteAn appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
- 9
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- 10
A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.
verb
- 1
To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
[…] on one occasion, where the bog had been cut away, a stump was discovered which bore evident marks of having been hagged [hacked].
- 2
To harass; to weary with vexation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hag in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sorcière , harpie, virago, haridelle, mégère |
| German | Hexe , Vettel |
| Portuguese | bruxa , cuca |
| Spanish | bruja |
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 hag come from?
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).