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mo

/moʊ/adverb, symbol, noun, adjective, number

mo is spelled M-O: 2 letters and one syllable. It appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adverb, mo means “Further, longer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in mo?

Letters2: M-O
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
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 common is mo?

Mo appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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 mo?

  • UK /məʊ/
  • US /moʊ/

Mo has one syllable (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-au-mo.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with mo

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

mo vs moe0 B

Also written: moe.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with mo?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mo from its last stressed vowel (/oʊ/):

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 mo

  • mos plural

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

What does mo mean?

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

adverb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo a greater degree.

  2. 2

    Further, longer.

symbol

  1. 1

    month

    12 yr 4 mo 17 d

noun

  1. 1

    slangA homosexual.

  2. 2

    AustraliacolloquialA moustache.

  3. 3

    slangA molester.

  4. 4

    slangA moron.

  5. 5

    colloquialClipping of moment.

    Hang on a mo!

number

  1. 1

    The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.

noun

as MO
  1. 1

    Initialism of modus operandi.

  2. 2

    Initialism of money order.

  3. 3

    UKInitialism of medical officer.

  4. 4

    Initialism of molecular orbital.

adjective

as MO
  1. 1

    Initialism of mesio-occlusal.

  2. 2

    Initialism of magnetooptical.

adjective

  1. 1

    archaicGreater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)

  2. 2

    Alternative form of mo' (“more”).

    Yo, you got mo chips?

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

Where does mo come from?

From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

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

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