dodo

Other forms of dodo

plural

dodoes

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 dodo

What does dodo mean?

dodo means "someone whose style is out of fashion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dodo?

dodo has 2 syllables: do-do. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˈdoʊdoʊ/.

What is another word for dodo?

Close synonyms include fogy, fogey, fossil, Raphus cucullatus. 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 dodo a common word?

dodo 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.