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hog

/hɔɡ/noun, verb

hog is spelled H-O-G: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hog means “Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hog is hogs.

How many letters and syllables are in hog?

Letters3: H-O-G
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
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 hog?

Hog appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th 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 hog?

  • UK /hɒɡ/
  • US /hɔɡ/
  • US /hɑɡ/

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

Words people confuse with hog

Sounds like: hogg (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with hog?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hog from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɡ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gho.

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 hog

  • hogs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • hogging participle, present
  • hogged participle, past

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

What does hog mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

  2. 2

    An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.

  3. 3

    informalA greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.

    resource hog

  4. 4

    slangA large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

  5. 5

    UKA young sheep that has not been shorn.

  6. 6

    A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

  7. 7

    A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.

  8. 8

    UKarchaicslangA shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.

  9. 9

    informalA quahog (clam).

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

    Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.

  2. 2

    To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

  3. 3

    (of a hedge) to trim up closely

  4. 4

    To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

  5. 5

    To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

  6. 6

    To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

  7. 7

    To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.

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

Hog in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcochon (animal of the family Suidae), accaparer (to take more than one's share)
GermanSchwein, Hausschwein (animal of the family Suidae), sich selbstsüchtig aneignen, in Beschlag nehmen (to take more than one's share), Vielfraß, Sau (greedy person)
Portuguesesuíno (animal of the family Suidae), ganancioso (greedy person)
Spanishpuerco, cerdo (animal of the family Suidae), chupar, adueñarse de (to take more than one's share), codicioso (greedy person), motaza (large motorcycle)

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 hog come from?

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”).

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

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