gao
/ˈɡɑ.oʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Government Accountability Office (or its former name, General Accounting Office).
Example Sentences
- "The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it “withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy,’” said Thomas Armstrong, the GAO’s general counsel. But the GAO rejected that argument."
- "At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century."
Etymology
From Mandarin 高 (Gāo).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^高
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡaʊ/
- British English: /ɡaʊ/