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five-o

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English

Syllables
five-o
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The police.

Uncountable

noun

Alternative letter-case form of five-o.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the police procedural television series Hawaii Five-O (first aired in 1968), so named because it is set in Hawaii, which is the 50th U.S. state.

Usage

Inflected Forms

5-O (alternative) five-oh (alternative) 5.0 (alternative) 5O (alternative)

Questions

What does five-o mean?
The police.
Where does five-o come from?
From the police procedural television series Hawaii Five-O (first aired in 1968), so named because it is set in Hawaii, which is the 50th U.S. state.

How to pronounce five-o

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