mogadiscio

Questions about mogadiscio

What does mogadiscio mean?

mogadiscio means "the capital and largest city of Somalia; a port on the Indian Ocean".

How many syllables are in mogadiscio?

mogadiscio has 5 syllables and divides as mo-ga-di-sci-o under the regular spelling rules. 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 mogadiscio?

Close synonyms include Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. 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 mogadiscio a common word?

mogadiscio 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.