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jug

/d͡ʒʌɡ/noun, verb

jug is spelled J-U-G: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jug means “A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jug is jugs.

How many letters and syllables are in jug?

Letters3: J-U-G
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 jug?

Jug appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th 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 jug?

  • US /d͡ʒʌɡ/
  • Australia /d͡ʒɐɡ/
  • /d͡ʒʊɡ/

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

What rhymes with jug?

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

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 jug

  • jugs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • jugging participle, present
  • jugged participle, past
  • jugg

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

What does jug mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.

  2. 2

    The amount that a jug can hold.

  3. 3

    slangJail.

  4. 4

    slangvulgarA woman's breasts.

  5. 5

    AustraliaAn upright electric kettle.

  6. 6

    A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.

  7. 7

    USslangThe P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.

  8. 8

    A hold large enough for both hands

  9. 9

    A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.

  10. 10

    USDetention (after-school student punishment).

verb

  1. 1

    To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

    jugged hare

  2. 2

    slangTo put into jail.

  3. 3

    To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

  4. 4

    To nestle or collect together in a covey.

  5. 5

    USTo issue a detention (to a student).

  6. 6

    slangTo hustle or make money, usually aggressively.

  7. 7

    slangTo acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).

    I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.

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

Jug in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcruche, carafe, pichet (serving vessel)
GermanKanne, Krug (serving vessel), Knast (slang: jail)
Portuguesejarra, caneca (serving vessel)
Spanishjarra (serving vessel), trullo (slang: jail)

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 jug come from?

From Middle English jugge, of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of Middle English jubbe, jobbe, iubbe, geobbe, itself of unknown origin; or perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English ċēac (“pitcher; jug”). Compare also jug (“a low woman, maidservant”), from Jug, familiar form of Joanna. Prison sense attested from at least 1825 in Britain.

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

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