Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rho

/ɹoʊ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables: rho
IPA: /ɹoʊ/

6

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.

noun

The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

noun

Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins

name

A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

Example Sentences

"Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H."

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɹoʊ/
British English: /ɹəʊ/

Inflected Forms

rhos (plural)

Derived Forms

rhotic

Phrases

chi-rho Pollard's rho algorithm Rho factor rho meson Spearman's rho

Homonyms

roe Wroe row Rowe (toe–tow merger) rowe

Rhymes With

so no so-so know go show though oh ago low although co

Questions

How do you pronounce rho?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹoʊ/.
What does rho mean?: The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
Where does rho come from?: From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

How to pronounce rho

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