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Rho

German, noun/ʁoː/

Rho is spelled R-H-O (3 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 118,498th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rho is a German neuter noun meaning “rho (greek letter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “siebzehnter Buchstabe des griechischen Alphabets”.

What does Rho mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    neuterrho (greek letter)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. siebzehnter Buchstabe des griechischen Alphabets

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Rho

  • Rhos genitive
  • Ρ symbol uppercase
  • ρ symbol lowercase
  • ϱ symbol

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Rho?

  • /ʁoː/
  • [ʁoː]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to Rho

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Rho in German?

Rho appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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