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s'pose

/spoʊ̯z/verb

s'pose is a verb meaning “Pronunciation spelling of suppose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-P-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does s'pose mean?

verb

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of suppose.

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

How do you pronounce s'pose?

  • UK /spəʊ̯z/
  • UK [spəʊ̯z]
  • US /spoʊ̯z/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-s'pose.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-spose.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of s'pose

  • s'poses present, singular, he/she/it
  • s'posing participle, present
  • s'posed participle, past
  • spose

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

How common is s'pose?

S'pose appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).