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thingo

noun

thingo is spelled T-H-I-N-G-O: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, thingo means “A thingamajig; something the name of which is unknown or cannot be recalled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of thingo is thingos.

How many letters and syllables are in thingo?

Letters6: T-H-I-N-G-O
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is thingo?

Thingo appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 thingo?

  • Australia

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

Forms of thingo

  • thingos plural

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

What does thingo mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaA thingamajig; something the name of which is unknown or cannot be recalled.

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

Where does thingo come from?

From thing + -o.

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

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