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warg

UK /ˈwɑːɡ/noun, verb

warg is spelled W-A-R-G: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, warg means “A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of warg is wargs.

How many letters and syllables are in warg?

Letters4: W-A-R-G
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 warg?

Warg appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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 warg?

  • UK /ˈwɑːɡ/
  • UK /ˈwɔːɡ/
  • British /ˈwɑːɡ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-warg.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Qwertygiy-warg.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with warg?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as warg from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡ/, British pronunciation):

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 warg

  • wargs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • warging participle, present
  • warged participle, past

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

What does warg mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo possess the mind of (and see through the eyes of) another person or animal.

  2. 2

    To switch to another player character during a game.

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

Where does warg come from?

Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg. The verb senses emerged from the use of warg in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a noun referring to a person with a magical skin-changing ability.

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

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