vog
/vɑɡ/noun
vog is a noun meaning “Air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-G, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vog is vogs.
What does vog mean?
noun
- 1
Air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vog?
- UK /vɒɡ/
- US /vɑɡ/
- US /vɔɡ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vog.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vog
- vogs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vog?
Vog appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).
Where does vog come from?
Blend of volcano + fog, by analogy with smog.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).