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righto

/ˈɹaɪtoʊ/interjection

righto is spelled R-I-G-H-T-O: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, righto means “Okay; all right” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in righto?

Letters6: R-I-G-H-T-O
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is righto?

Righto appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 righto?

  • US /ˈɹaɪtoʊ/
  • UK /ˈɹaɪtəʊ/

Righto has 2 syllables (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-au-righto.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of righto

  • right-ho
  • righteo
  • rightio
  • righty-o
  • righty-oh
  • right-oh
  • right-o

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

What does righto mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    AustraliaIrelandUKcolloquialOkay; all right.

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

Where does righto come from?

From right + -o.

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

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