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ostrog

noun

ostrog is spelled O-S-T-R-O-G: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ostrog means “A small Russian fort, typically wooden, encircled by a palisade wall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ostrog is ostrogs.

How many letters and syllables are in ostrog?

Letters6: O-S-T-R-O-G
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is ostrog?

Ostrog appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

Forms of ostrog

  • ostrogs plural

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

What does ostrog mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A small Russian fort, typically wooden, encircled by a palisade wall.

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

Where does ostrog come from?

Borrowed from Russian остро́г (ostróg).

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

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