hobo

Other forms of hobo

plural

hoboes

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 hobo

What does hobo mean?

hobo means "a vagrant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hobo?

hobo has 2 syllables: ho-bo. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˈhoʊboʊ/.

What is another word for hobo?

Close synonyms include tramp, bum, migrant worker. 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 hobo a common word?

hobo 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.