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VMO

[vij ɛm ˈow]noun

VMO is a noun meaning “Maximum operating speed; the airspeed which an aircraft should not exceed in the course of routine operation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-M-O, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of VMO is VMOs.

What does VMO mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Maximum operating speed; the airspeed which an aircraft should not exceed in the course of routine operation.

  2. 2

    Initialism of vastus medialis oblique.

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

How do you pronounce VMO?

  • [vij ɛm ˈow]

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

Forms of VMO

  • VMOs plural

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

How common is VMO?

VMO appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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).