xu
/suː/noun
xu is a noun meaning “A former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-U and has one syllable, and it appears 2.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does xu mean?
noun
- 1
A former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce xu?
- /suː/
Xu 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 xu
- xus plural, rare
- su
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is xu?
Xu appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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).
Words people confuse with xu
Also written: su.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does xu come from?
Borrowed from Vietnamese xu, from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and sou.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).