lasso
/ˈlæs.oʊ/noun, verb
lasso is spelled L-A-S-S-O. The wrong spelling people search most is lassoo: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 122 of all searches for the word. Lasso is a noun meaning “A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses”. The plural of lasso is lassos or lassoes.
How many letters and syllables are in lasso?
| Letters | 5: L-A-S-S-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,832nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lassoo, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell lasso?
Lasso is spelled L-A-S-S-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 122 of the searches for lasso in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is lasso?
Lasso appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd 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 lasso?
- UK /læsˈuː/
- UK /ləsˈuː/
- US /ˈlæs.oʊ/
Lasso 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-us-lasso.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lasso?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as lasso from its last stressed vowel (/æsoʊ/):
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 lasso
- lassos plural
- lassoes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- lassoing participle, present
- lassoed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lasso mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
He managed to catch the runaway bull with a lasso.
- 2
An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.
verb
- 1
To catch with a lasso.
He had to lasso the wild horse before it ran off.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lasso 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 lasso come from?
From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).