how to pronounce rho

/ɹəʊ/

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rho is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of rho in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… there by Rho mu by Rho right we say …”

meanings of rho

noun:

The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.
The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins.

rho frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word rho occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics rho can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that rho can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;