weirdo

Other forms of weirdo

plural

weirdoes·

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 weirdo

What does weirdo mean?

weirdo means "someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weirdo?

weirdo has 2 syllables: weir-do. The stress falls on "weir". In IPA it is /ˈwɪɹdoʊ/.

What is another word for weirdo?

Close synonyms include creep, weirdie, weirdy, spook, crazy. 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 weirdo a common word?

weirdo 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.