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entero

/ˈɛntəroʊ-/noun

entero is a noun meaning “Clipping of enterococcus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-T-E-R-O, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of entero is enteros.

What does entero mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalClipping of enterococcus.

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

How do you pronounce entero?

  • /ˈɛntəroʊ-/

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

Forms of entero

  • enteros plural
  • enter-

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

How common is entero?

Entero appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).

Where does entero come from?

From New Latin entero-, combining form from Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”).

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