quo
/kwoʊ/noun
quo is spelled Q-U-O: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, quo means “Paired with quid, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something given in exchange for something else” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of quo is quos.
How many letters and syllables are in quo?
| Letters | 3: Q-U-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is quo?
Quo appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 quo?
- UK /kwəʊ/
- US /kwoʊ/
Quo 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-us-quo.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with quo?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as quo 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 quo
- quos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quo mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Paired with quid, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something given in exchange for something else.
verb
- 1
obsoletequoth
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does quo come from?
See quoth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).