doco
/ˈdɒ.kəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.01 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras."
- "Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife."
- "I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get."
- "- Can you use asterisks in a filename? - I don't know. Check the doco."
Etymology
Etymology tree French documentairebor. English documentary Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O English oh English -o English doco From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈdɒ.kəʊ/
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Informal