tenno
/ˈtɛnəʊ/noun
tenno is spelled T-E-N-N-O: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tenno means “The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tenno is tennos.
How many letters and syllables are in tenno?
| Letters | 5: T-E-N-N-O |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 tenno?
Tenno appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 tenno?
- /ˈtɛnəʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-tenno.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tenno?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tenno.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tonne, tenon, nonet.
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 tenno
- tennos plural
- ten'no
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tenno mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tenno come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 天皇(てんのう) (tennō), from Middle Chinese 天皇 (then hwang) with the original sense of “heavenly sovereign”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).