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tacho

/ˈtækəʊ/noun

tacho is a noun meaning “Clipping of tachograph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-C-H-O, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tacho is tachos.

What does tacho mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Clipping of tachograph.

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

How do you pronounce tacho?

  • /ˈtækəʊ/

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

Forms of tacho

  • tachos plural

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

How common is tacho?

Tacho appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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 tacho come from?

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τάχος (tákhos, “speed”). Compare tachy-, from the same root.

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