edo

Other forms of edo

plural

edoes·

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 edo

What does edo mean?

edo means "a member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in edo?

edo has 2 syllables: e-do. The stress falls on "e". In IPA it is /ˈidoʊ/.

What is another word for edo?

Close synonyms include Tokyo, Tokio, Yeddo, Yedo, Japanese capital. 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 edo a common word?

edo 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.