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Acholi

/əˈtʃoʊ.li/noun

Acholi is spelled A-C-H-O-L-I: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Acholi means “A member of people in northern Uganda and southern Sudan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Acholi is Acholis.

How many letters and syllables are in Acholi?

Letters6: A-C-H-O-L-I
Syllables3 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is Acholi?

Acholi appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).

How do you pronounce Acholi?

  • US /əˈtʃoʊ.li/

Acholi has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with Acholi?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Acholi from its last stressed vowel (/oʊli/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of Acholi

  • Acholis plural
  • Acoli
  • Acooli
  • Akoli
  • Atscholi
  • Shuli

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Acholi mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A member of people in northern Uganda and southern Sudan.

    To him every Acholi was a rebel, …. Every time we captured an Acholi, we had to kill them, and Drago hated this.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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