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spose

/spoʊ̯z/verb

spose is spelled S-P-O-S-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, spose means “Pronunciation spelling of suppose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in spose?

Letters5: S-P-O-S-E
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th 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; 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 spose?

Spose appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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 spose?

  • 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).

What rhymes with spose?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as spose from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: posse.

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 spose

  • sposes present, singular, he/she/it
  • sposing participle, present
  • sposed participle, past
  • s'pose

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

What does spose mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of suppose.

    I spose you're right.

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

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