wong
/wɔŋ/noun, verb
wong is spelled W-O-N-G: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wong means “Low-lying land, usually marshy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wong is wongs.
How many letters and syllables are in wong?
| Letters | 4: W-O-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th 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 wong?
Wong appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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 wong?
- UK /wɒŋ/
- US /wɔŋ/
- /wɑŋ/
Wong has one syllable (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-wong.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wong?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wong from its last stressed vowel (/ɔŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: gown.
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 wong
- wongs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wonging participle, present
- wonged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wong mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA field, meadow, or other such piece of land.
- 2
Low-lying land, usually marshy.
- 3
In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.
- 4
slangThe penis.
verb
- 1
To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does wong come from?
From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), from Proto-West Germanic *wang, from Proto-Germanic *wangaz. Cognate with Danish vang.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).