sog
/sɒɡ/
"sog" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sog” is uncommon English (frequency #59,715 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,715
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sog · sog · English
sog · rank #59,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,715
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sofi
Nearest frequency peer: Sofi (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sog”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- smol
smol
40,290 corpus weight
- Smollett
Smollett
40,289 corpus weight
- Sofi
Sofi
40,287 corpus weight
- sog
sog
40,286 corpus weight
- sotto
sotto
40,285 corpus weight
- soundstage
soundstage
40,283 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sog” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɒɡ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sog” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sog is uncommon English at frequency #59,715 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɒɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.".
sog doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Of uncertain origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin (compare Icelandic söggur (“moist”), dialectal Norwegian søgg (“moist”), dialectal Swedish sögg, sygg (“something moist”)), from Old Norse söggr (“dank, wet”), from Proto-Germanic *sawwijaz, a derivativ… The correct English form is sog, spelled S-O-G.
Definition
- 1Soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin (compare Icelandic söggur (“moist”), dialectal Norwegian søgg (“moist”), dialectal Swedish sögg, sygg (“something moist”)), from Old Norse söggr (“dank, wet”), from Proto-Germanic *sawwijaz, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sawwą (“moisture, sap, juice”), related to Old English ġesēaw (“full of moisture, soaked”), Old English sēaw (“moisture, juice, humour”). The verb is possibly related to soak.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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