Thao
/θaʊ/noun
Thao is a noun meaning “A member of an aboriginal people of central Taiwan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-A-O and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Thao is Thaos.
What does Thao mean?
noun
- 1
A member of an aboriginal people of central Taiwan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Thao?
- /θaʊ/
Thao has one syllable (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).
Forms of Thao
- Thaos plural
- Sao
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Thao?
Thao appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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 Thao come from?
From Thao Thau, an autonym based on thau (“person”), itself from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Doublet of Tsou.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).