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elo

/ˈiːloʊ/noun

elo is spelled E-L-O: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, elo means “Synonym of Elo rating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of elo is elos.

How many letters and syllables are in elo?

Letters3: E-L-O
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 38,416th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 elo?

Elo appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th 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 elo?

  • /ˈiːloʊ/
  • /ˈɛloʊ/

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

What rhymes with elo?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: leo, ole.

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 elo

  • elos plural

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

What does elo mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of Elo rating.

noun

as Elo
  1. 1

    Ellipsis of Elo rating.

  2. 2

    proscribedRating, independent of the underlying algorithm used.

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

Where does elo come from?

Borrowed from Hungarian Élő, from élő. As a rating system, named after its creator Arpad Elo (1903–1992).

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

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