mano
/ˈmɑːnəʊ/noun
mano is a noun meaning “A stone resembling a rolling pin, used to grind maize or other grain on a metate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-N-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mano is manos or manoes.
What does mano mean?
noun
- 1
A stone resembling a rolling pin, used to grind maize or other grain on a metate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mano?
- /ˈmɑːnəʊ/
Mano has 2 syllables (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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mano.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of mano
- manos plural
- manoes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mano?
Mano appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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).
Where does mano come from?
Borrowed from Spanish mano (“hand”). Doublet of manus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).