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woz

/wəz/verb

woz is a verb meaning “Eye dialect spelling of was” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-Z, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Woz, the name).

What does woz mean?

verb

  1. 1

    Eye dialect spelling of was.

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

How do you pronounce woz?

  • /wəz/

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

How common is woz?

Woz appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Woz, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does woz come from?

From was, wuz.

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