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mero

noun

mero is a noun meaning “Any of several large groupers of warm seas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-R-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mero is meros.

What does mero mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several large groupers of warm seas.

  2. 2

    colloquialMeropenem.

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

How do you pronounce mero?

    Mero 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).

    Forms of mero

    • mer-
    • meri-
    • meros plural

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

    How common is mero?

    Mero appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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 mero come from?

    Borrowed from Spanish mero.

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