curio

Other forms of curio

plural

curios·

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 curio

What does curio mean?

curio means "something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting".

How many syllables are in curio?

curio has 3 syllables: cur-i-o. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹioʊ/.

What is another word for curio?

Close synonyms include curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity. 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 curio a common word?

curio 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.