Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cto

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables: cto
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Initialism of cancelled to order.

noun

Initialism of chief technology officer or chief technical officer.

noun

Initialism of confidential treatment order.

noun

Initialism of chronic total occlusion.

noun

A cancelled-to-order postage stamp.

Example Sentences

"Senior employees can also pitch project ideas to upper-management and get funding to work on them, while junior employees are encouraged to “take ownership” over their assigned projects and to act as if they were the CTO of it."

Inflected Forms

CTOs (plural) CTO's (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

CCO CEO CFO CIO CSO

Questions

What does cto mean?: Initialism of cancelled to order.

How to pronounce cto

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