xoxo
[ɛksəʊɛksəʊ]noun
xoxo is spelled X-O-X-O: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, xoxo means “Abbreviation of hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in xoxo?
| Letters | 4: X-O-X-O |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is xoxo?
Xoxo appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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 xoxo?
- [ɛksəʊɛksəʊ]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with xoxo
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: xo.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of xoxo
- xo
- xoxoxo
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does xoxo mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of xoxo (an abbreviation for hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does xoxo come from?
From use of X/x to mean “kiss” and O/o to mean “hug”. Use of “X” to indicate a kiss attested since 1763, preceded by medieval use of an “X”, which was then kissed by illiterates to indicate a signature. Use of “O” is more recent, and presumably created by analogy (e.g., X/O in tic-tac-toe). Speculative theories on precise origins abound, including folk etymologies.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).