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onos

noun

onos is spelled O-N-O-S: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, onos means “Synonym of epinetron (“Attic pottery item”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of onos is onoi.

How many letters and syllables are in onos?

Letters4: O-N-O-S
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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 onos?

Onos appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

What rhymes with onos?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as onos.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: soon.

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 onos

  • onoi plural

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

What does onos mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of epinetron (“Attic pottery item”).

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

Where does onos come from?

From Ancient Greek ὄνος (ónos, “beast of burden, distaff”).

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

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