cairo

Other forms of cairo

plural

cairoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cairo

What does cairo mean?

cairo means "a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cairo?

cairo has 2 syllables: cai-ro. The stress falls on "cai". In IPA it is /ˈkaɪɹoʊ/.

What is another word for cairo?

Close synonyms include Al Qahira, El Qahira, Egyptian capital, capital of Egypt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cairo a common word?

cairo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.