Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

long o

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.04 in modern English

Syllables: long o
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The vowel sound /əʊ/, as in the words "cone" and "note". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in coning versus conning).

Inflected Forms

long o's (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

long oo short oo long a short a long e short e long i short i

Antonyms

short o

Questions

What does long o mean?: The vowel sound /əʊ/, as in the words "cone" and "note". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in coning versus conning).

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