casino
/kæˈsinoʊ/noun
casino is spelled C-A-S-I-N-O: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, casino means “A public building or room for gambling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of casino is casinos or casinoes.
How many letters and syllables are in casino?
| Letters | 6: C-A-S-I-N-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 casino?
Casino appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 casino?
- UK /kəˈsiːnəʊ/
- US /kæˈsinoʊ/
- US /kəˈsinoʊ/
Casino has 3 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-casino.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with casino?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as casino from its last stressed vowel (/inoʊ/):
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 casino
- casinos plural
- casinoes plural
- casini plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does casino mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A public building or room for gambling.
We valeted our car and entered the casino.
- 2
obsoleteA small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
I felt it strange, and regretted it, that so amiable a man should have contracted such dissolute habits, and at this very time, instead of living respectably with his charming Countess, had Baccelli, the superannuated dancing courtesan, in
- 3
A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
- 4
Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Casino in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling:
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 casino come from?
From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).