mo.

Questions about mo.

What does mo. mean?

mo. means "a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union".

How many syllables are in mo.?

mo. has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mo.?

Close synonyms include Missouri, Show Me State, MO. 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 mo. a common word?

mo. is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.