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pau

noun, adjective

pau is spelled P-A-U: 3 letters. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pau means “Alternative form of pa (“Maori fort”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pau is paus.

How many letters and syllables are in pau?

Letters3: P-A-U
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 26,776th 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 pau?

Pau appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th 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).

Words people confuse with pau

Also written: bao, pa.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with pau?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pua.

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 pau

  • paus plural

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

What does pau mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of pa (“Maori fort”).

  2. 2

    A unit of volume used in Brunei, Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak, equivalent to 2 imperial gills (approximately 0.284 litres or 0.6 US pints).

  3. 3

    Alternative form of bao (“baozi; Chinese steamed buns with filling”).

adjective

  1. 1

    done; over; finished

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

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