tog
/tɒɡ/
"tog" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tog” is an uncommon English word, ranked #59,078 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,078
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A cloak.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɒɡ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tog” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for tog is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɒɡ/. Corpus data places it at rank #59,078 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tog, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortened from earlier togemans, togeman (“cloak, loose coat”), from Middle English tog, toge, togue, from Old French togue, from Latin toga (“cloak, mantle”) (compare the doublets toga and toge). Togeman(s) was an old thieves' and vegabonds' cant for "cloa… The correct English form is tog, spelled T-O-G.
Definition
- 1A cloak.
- 2A coat.
- 3swimwear.
- 4A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre
Etymology
Shortened from earlier togemans, togeman (“cloak, loose coat”), from Middle English tog, toge, togue, from Old French togue, from Latin toga (“cloak, mantle”) (compare the doublets toga and toge). Togeman(s) was an old thieves' and vegabonds' cant for "cloak; coat". By the 1700s the noun tog was used as a shortened form, then with the meaning "coat"; before 1800 the word (in this sense usually in the plural; see togs) started to mean "clothing". The verb tog ("to dress up") came shortly after. The unit of thermal resistance was coined in the 1940s after the clo, a unit of thermal insulation of clothing, which was itself derived from clothes or clothing.
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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Using “tog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-O-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tɒɡ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.