hogg
/hɑɡ/noun
hogg is spelled H-O-G-G: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hogg means “A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hogg is hoggs.
How many letters and syllables are in hogg?
| Letters | 4: H-O-G-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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 hogg?
Hogg appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 hogg?
- UK /hɒɡ/
- US /hɑɡ/
- US /hɔːɡ/
Hogg 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 hogg
Sounds like: hog (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with hogg?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hogg from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡ/):
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 hogg
- hoggs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hogg mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth.
They sent a lorryload of hoggs to the auction mart, and they will keep the rest for their own flock.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does hogg come from?
See hogget (“young sheep”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).