sos
/sɒs/interjection, noun
sos is spelled S-O-S: 3 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, sos means “A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sos?
| Letters | 3: S-O-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 sos?
Sos appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 sos?
- /sɒs/
Sos has 3 syllables (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)-Vealhurl-SOS.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Infrish_2-sos.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sos?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sos from its last stressed vowel (/ɛs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: oss.
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).
What does sos mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
interjection
- 1
A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
noun
- 1
plural of so
noun
- 1
The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.
The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster.
- 2
Initialism of Secretary of State.
- 3
Initialism of special order sale.
- 4
A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence.
- 5
Initialism of shit on a shingle.
phrase
- 1
colloquialInitialism of slip on show: a warning to a woman that the underwear she has on can be seen.
- 2
CommonwealthInitialism of struck off strength or stricken off strength.
interjection
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of sos.
noun
- 1
plural of SO
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).