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kago

UK /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/noun

kago is spelled K-A-G-O: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kago means “An open and suspended Japanese style of sedan chair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kago is kagos.

How many letters and syllables are in kago?

Letters4: K-A-G-O
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 165,739th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 kago?

Kago appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 kago?

  • UK /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/

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

What rhymes with kago?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as kago from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡəʊ/, British pronunciation):

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 kago

  • kagos plural
  • cango
  • kango

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

What does kago mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An open and suspended Japanese style of sedan chair.

    There are no roads outside the villages in northern Yezo, no jinriksha,–those most fascinating man-power carriages,–no kago, or swinging cars, and no side-saddles...

  2. 2

    Any Japanese litter, inclusive of norimonos and other styles.

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

Where does kago come from?

From Japanese 駕籠 (かご, kago).

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

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