fao
preposition
fao is a preposition meaning “Abbreviation of for the attention of; used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-O and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fao mean?
preposition
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Abbreviation of for the attention of; used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on when the address is of an organisation.
preposition
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Alternative letter-case form of fao (“for the attention of”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fao?
Fao has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fao?
Fao appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).