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fibro

UK /ˈfaɪbɹəʊ/noun

fibro is a noun meaning “Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-B-R-O, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fibro mean?

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaFibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.

  2. 2

    informalFibromyalgia.

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

How do you pronounce fibro?

  • UK /ˈfaɪbɹəʊ/

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

How common is fibro?

Fibro appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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 fibro come from?

Abbreviations.

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