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OKU

noun

OKU is spelled O-K-U: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, OKU means “initialism of Orang Kurang Upaya (“person with disabilities, special needs person”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of OKU is OKUs.

How many letters and syllables are in OKU?

Letters3: O-K-U
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 95,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is OKU?

OKU appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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).

Forms of OKU

  • OKUs plural

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

What does OKU mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    initialism of Orang Kurang Upaya (“person with disabilities, special needs person”)

    OKU person (special needs person)

noun

as Oku
  1. 1

    An ethnic group of Sierra Leone and the Gambia.

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

Where does OKU come from?

Borrowed from Malay OKU.

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

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