alco
noun
alco is spelled A-L-C-O: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alco means “A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives, now thought to be extinct” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of alco is alcos.
How many letters and syllables are in alco?
| Letters | 4: A-L-C-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 77,666th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 alco?
Alco appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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 alco?
- Australia
Alco 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: EN-AU_ck1_alco.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with alco?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as alco.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: coal, cola.
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 alco
- alcos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alco mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives, now thought to be extinct.
- 2
AustraliaslangAn alcoholic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).