coho

Other forms of coho

plural

cohoes·

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 coho

What does coho mean?

coho means "fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coho?

coho has 2 syllables: co-ho. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊhoʊ/.

What is another word for coho?

Close synonyms include silver salmon, coho salmon, cohoe, cohoe, coho salmon. 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 coho a common word?

coho is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.