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electro

/ɪˈlɛk.tɹəʊ/noun

electro is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, electro means “An electronic style of hip hop; electrofunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of electro is electros.

How many letters and syllables are in electro?

Letters7: E-L-E-C-T-R-O
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 electro?

Electro appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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 electro?

  • /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəʊ/

Electro 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).

What rhymes with electro?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as electro.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: elector.

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 electro

  • electros plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • electroing participle, present
  • electroed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does electro mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAn electrotype.

  2. 2

    An electronic style of hip hop; electrofunk.

  3. 3

    informalElectrolysis.

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo electrotype.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Electro in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchelectro, électro (The musical genre), électro- (of electricity or electrical)
GermanElektro-, elektro- (of electricity or electrical)
Portugueseeletro- (of electricity or electrical)
Spanishelectro- (of electricity or electrical)

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 electro come from?

Clipping.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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