Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wo

/wo/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables: wo
IPA: /wo/

5

Scrabble Score

2

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

intj

A falconer's call to a hawk.

intj

A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

noun

Obsolete spelling of woe.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

verb

To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).

Obsolete

prefix

the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion

noun

Initialism of warrant officer.

Example Sentences

"Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!"
"They dance around them by night, and wo to the belated peasant who, passing by, is forced to join in their roundel; he usually dies of exhaustion."
"He stands ahint our wo."
"Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame, An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo : Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar, So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'."
"[…] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]"
"Plantit up agen t'wo"

Etymology

Variant of who.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: wough, wāh, *waig, *waigaz, *weyk-

Usage

Inflected Forms

whoa (alternative) wos (plural) waw (alternative) waugh (alternative) W.O. (alternative) W. O. (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

NN PO CPO NCO

Synonyms

Gliese Gl GJ

Rhymes With

so no so-so know go show though oh ago low although co

Questions

How do you pronounce wo?: The recorded pronunciation is /wo/.
What does wo mean?: A falconer's call to a hawk.
Where does wo come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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