azo
/æz.oʊ/adjective
azo is an adjective meaning “azote, nitrogen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Z-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does azo mean?
adjective
- 1
azote, nitrogen
- 2
Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
- 3
Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group (-N=N-) uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene etc.
noun
- 1
Initialism of aluminum-doped zinc oxide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce azo?
- UK /eɪ.zə(ʊ)/
- US /æz.oʊ/
- US /æz.ə/
Azo has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-azo.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of azo
- az-
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is azo?
Azo appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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).
Azo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | azo- |
| German | azo- |
| Spanish | azo- |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does azo come from?
From azote (“nitrogen”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).