geo
/ɡjəʊ/noun
geo is spelled G-E-O: 3 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, geo means “An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of geo is geos.
How many letters and syllables are in geo?
| Letters | 3: G-E-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th 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 geo?
Geo appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th 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 geo?
- UK /ɡjəʊ/
As a noun (“Clipping of geography (“a sales territory or other…”): /dʒiːˈəʊ/.
Geo 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-geo-.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with geo?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as geo from its last stressed vowel (/ioʊ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ego.
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 geo
- geos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does geo mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff.
- 2
Clipping of geography (“a sales territory or other geographic area”)
noun
- 1
Initialism of genetically engineered organism.
- 2
Abbreviation of geostationary orbit.
- 3
Abbreviation of geostationary Earth orbit.
- 4
Abbreviation of geosynchronous equatorial orbit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Geo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Earth:
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 geo come from?
Borrowed from Norn gjo, from Old Norse gjá.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).