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smoko

UK /ˈsməʊkəʊ/noun

smoko is spelled S-M-O-K-O: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, smoko means “A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of smoko is smokos.

How many letters and syllables are in smoko?

Letters5: S-M-O-K-O
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 161,690th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 smoko?

Smoko appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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 smoko?

  • UK /ˈsməʊkəʊ/

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

What rhymes with smoko?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as smoko from its last stressed vowel (/əʊkəʊ/, British pronunciation):

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 smoko

  • smokos plural
  • smoke-o
  • smoke-oh
  • smokeho

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

What does smoko mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliacolloquialA cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc.

  2. 2

    A tea break or coffee break with cakes, snacks, etc.

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

Smoko in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense cigarette break:

LanguageWords
GermanRauchpause

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does smoko come from?

From smoke + -o.

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

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