# echo

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛkəʊ/ · frequency rank #6,679

## Definitions
1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
3. A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
4. Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
5. Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
6. An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
7. The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
8. An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
10. A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
11. A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
12. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
13. Clipping of echocardiography.
14. Clipping of echocardiogram.

## Etymology
From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

## Easily confused with
- **eh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-eh)
- **eo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-eo)
- **ego** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-ego)
- **emo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-emo)
- **Edo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-edo)
- **eth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-eth)
- **evo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-evo)
- **ECT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-ect)
- **ECM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-ecm)
- **Elo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-elo)
- **Eph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-eph)
- **Epo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-epo)
- **euro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-euro)
- **expo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-expo)
- **Enzo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-enzo)
- **econ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-econ)
- **Elmo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-elmo)
- **ergo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-ergo)
- **etch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-etch)
- **ECHR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/echo-vs-echr)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ceho`, `eccho`, `echho`, `ecoh`, `ehco`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/echo