English spellings/Catalogs/Retro O

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This page lists pronunciations of English words that end in O. The list is in retroalphabetical order, that is, alphabetically beginning with the final letter of the word (in this case O) and continuing backwards through it.

The apostrophe is treated as the last letter of the alphabet, after Z. Click on the blue "Catalogs" link below the article title for a pronunciation key.[e]


after a consonant ô, apart from Bòro and tŵo, never -ó -o

placêbo

usually *ənkô - & cô, and cô

stúcco

flaménco

do

vídêo

Montevidèo

Lêo

Clìo = Clêo

Galilèo

lumbâgo

dóggo

vërtigo

Djángo

lôgo

Tôgo

mácho

.*sŷko psŷcho

.*Tŷko Tŷcho

-shô braggadôcio

portfôlio

pôlio

-ss- impresàrio

-shô râtio

-shô Horâtio

taboô

goô

ígloô

Wåterloô

shampoô

kangaroô

woô

BrE *híəro hêro

BrE *zíəro zêro

.*Búrə - it means Míddlesbrough, which doesn’t have the ò - ends in schwa - Bòro

prô

cf. hétero - métro

rétro

cf. bûreau - pólitburo

Plâto

AmE tomâto BrE tomàto

potâto

f- phôto

Plûto

at to = also, many toô = 2 tŵo

émbrỳo