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pos

/poʊz/noun, adjective

pos is spelled P-O-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pos means “plural of po” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pos?

Letters3: P-O-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 pos?

Pos appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 pos?

  • UK /pəʊz/
  • US /poʊz/

As an adjective (“Clipping of positive”): /pɒz/, /pɔz/, /pɑz/.

Pos 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-pos.wav, En-au-POS.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with pos

Also written: positive.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with pos?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pos from its last stressed vowel (/ɑz/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ops, sop.

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 pos

  • more pos comparative
  • most pos superlative

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

What does pos mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of po (a form of po)

noun

as POS
  1. 1

    Initialism of proof of service.

  2. 2

    Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.

  3. 3

    Initialism of part of speech.

  4. 4

    Initialism of point of sale or point of service.

  5. 5

    Initialism of proprietary operating system.

  6. 6

    Initialism of position and orientation system.

  7. 7

    vulgarInitialism of piece of shit.

  8. 8

    Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.

phrase

as POS
  1. 1

    Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).

    Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

noun

as PoS
  1. 1

    Initialism of part of speech.

  2. 2

    Initialism of proof of stake.

noun

as POs
  1. 1

    plural of PO (a form of PO)

adjective

  1. 1

    UKslangClipping of positive.

    I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

  2. 2

    Alternative spelling of poz (“HIV positive”).

  3. 3

    Clipping of possessive.

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

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