rho

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
5
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɹəʊ/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ɹəʊ/ · /ɹoʊ/

Definition of rho

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
    “Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.”
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noun

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
    “Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.”
  2. The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.
  3. Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins

name

  1. A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô) English rho From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Anagrams of rho

4 plays · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from rho

3 playable · top: HO (5 pts)

Best play ho 5 points

2-letter words

2 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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