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say it: FRANG-koh
franco is a noun meaning "Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)". It is pronounced /ˈfɹæŋkoʊ/ — FRANG-koh. It carries one recorded sense.
Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for franco come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.