English spellings > Catalogs > Retro O
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This page lists pronunciations of English words that end in O. The list is in retroalphabetical order, that is, alphabetically beginning with the final letter of the word (in this case O) and continuing backwards through it.
Headwords are on the right, but otherwise entries read in the normal way, from left to right.
The apostrophe is treated as the last letter of the alphabet, after Z.[e]
after a consonant ô (but see -ôe for many rhyming words), apart from Bòro (-ə) and tŵo (-û); never -ó -o
placêbo
usually *ənkô - & cô = and cô
stúcco
flaménco
-û do
vídêo
Montevidèo
Lêo
Clìo = Clêo
Galilèo
gô
lumbâgo
dóggo
vërtigo
Djángo
lôgo
Tôgo
mácho
Páncho
hóncho
póncho
*sŷko psŷcho
*Tŷko Tŷcho
-shô braggadôcio
portfôlio
pôlio
-ss- impresàrio
-shô râtio
-shô Horâtio
nô
taboô
goô
ígloô
Wåterloô
shampoô
kangaroô
woô
Sûe = sûe and they each make a minimal pair with zôo
BrE *híəro hêro
BrE *zíəro zêro
*Búrə - it means Míddlesbrough, which doesn’t have the ò and ends in schwa: *Mídlzbrə: Bòro
prô
cf. hétero - métro
rétro
cf. bûreau - pólitburo
sô
Plâto
AmE tomâto BrE tomàto
potâto
f- phôto
Plûto
at to = also, many toô = 2 tŵo
émbrỳo
