yeddo

Other forms of yeddo

plural

yeddoes·

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 yeddo

What does yeddo mean?

yeddo means "the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan".

How many syllables are in yeddo?

yeddo has 2 syllables and divides as yed-do 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 yeddo?

Close synonyms include Tokyo, Tokio, Yedo, Edo, Japanese capital. 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 yeddo a common word?

yeddo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.