ceo
noun
ceo is spelled C-E-O: 3 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ceo means “Alternative letter-case form of CEO” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ceo is ceos.
How many letters and syllables are in ceo?
| Letters | 3: C-E-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 29 times per million words; the 3,218th 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 ceo?
Ceo appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th 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 ceo?
Ceo 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-CEO.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ceo?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ceo.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: eco.
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 ceo
- ceos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ceo mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of CEO.
noun
- 1
Initialism of chief executive officer.
- 2
A notional title for a leading partaker in, or advocate of something or someone.
- 3
UKInitialism of civil enforcement officer.
- 4
Acronym of current engine option.
- 5
Initialism of city engineering office.
verb
- 1
informalTo serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization or company.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ceo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chief executive officer:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | PDG |
| Portuguese | CEO, diretor executivo |
| Spanish | director / gerente / presidente ejecutivo / general |
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.