stego
adjective, noun
stego is an adjective meaning “Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-G-O, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does stego mean?
adjective
- 1
Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.
noun
- 1
Steganography.
- 2
A secret message hidden using steganography.
- 3
A stegosaurus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of stego
- stegos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stego?
Stego appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 stego come from?
Clipping of various terms relating to steganography.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).