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relo

/ˈɹeləʉ/noun

relo is a noun meaning “A relative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-O, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of relo is relos.

What does relo mean?

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliacolloquialinformalA relative.

  2. 2

    AustraliacolloquialinformalA relationship.

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

How do you pronounce relo?

  • Australia /ˈɹeləʉ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-relo.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of relo

  • relos plural
  • rello

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

How common is relo?

Relo appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).

Where does relo come from?

From relative + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

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