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say it: TANG-goh
tango is a noun and verb meaning "a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin". It is pronounced /ˈtæŋɡoʊ/ — TANG-goh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
music written in duple time for dancing the tango
dance a tango
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 tango 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.