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say it: ruh-KOH-koh
rococo is a noun and adjective meaning "fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century". It is pronounced /ɹəˈkoʊˌkoʊ/ — ruh-KOH-koh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
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 rococo 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.