Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aso

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

Syllables: aso
IPA

3

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Abbreviation of antisense oligonucleotide.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of app store optimization.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of AIDS service organization.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A surname from Japanese.

Example Sentences

"The PEOPLE WITH AIDS who are the most important and needy clients of ASOs get shortchanged when education, "program development," and other such Volvo-era machinations suck up needed funding and energy."
"To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators."

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 麻生 (Asō).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 麻生

Usage

Inflected Forms

ASOs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

streptolysin antisense oligonucleotide SEO

Synonyms

ASLO

Questions

What does aso mean?: Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.
Where does aso come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

How to pronounce aso

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