euro
/ˈjʊɹoʊ/noun
euro is spelled E-U-R-O: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, euro means “The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of euro is euros.
How many letters and syllables are in euro?
| Letters | 4: E-U-R-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 euro?
Euro appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 euro?
- UK /ˈjʊəɹəʊ/
- US /ˈjʊɹoʊ/
- US /ˈjɝoʊ/
Euro has 2 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: En-uk-euro.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Euro-.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with euro?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as euro from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹoʊ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: roue.
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 euro
- euros plural
- euro-
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does euro mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
- 2
A coin with a face value of one euro.
- 3
Abbreviation of European, in any sense.
euro size
- 4
Any member of the species Macropus robustus of macropods; a wallaroo.
adjective
- 1
Clipping of European.
noun
- 1
proscribedAlternative spelling of euro, the currency and coin introduced 1999.
- 2
The UEFA European Football Championship, a European football competition held between the international teams of Europe every four years.
- 3
Clipping of European.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Euro in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 euro come from?
The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).