About The Word “No”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “no”, including spelling, parts of speech, “no” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “no”

No is spelled n-o and has 2 letters.


How to pronounce “no”

IPA pronunciation: /noʊ/

Phonetic pronunciation: noh


How many vowels and consonants in “no”

The word “no” has 1 consonants and 1 vowels.


How many syllables in “no”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “no”.


What type of word is “no”?

The word "no" can be a determiner, adverb, particle, prepositional phrase and noun.

Meaning of the word “no”

The word 'no' is a negative response or refusal, indicating a lack of agreement, permission, or acceptance to a request, statement, or situation.

Origin of the word “no”

The word 'no' has its origins in Old English, where it was spelled 'nā', derived from the Proto-Germanic 'ne' (not) and 'ai' (ever). This Proto-Germanic root can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European '*ne-' (not) and '*h₂ey-' (ever, always).

Example sentences with the word “no”

Adverb:
  1. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't lift the heavy box.
  2. He had no idea that his surprise party was being planned.
Noun:
  1. After much debate, the committee's final decision was a no.Interjection:
  2. "No!" she shouted, as the child reached for the hot stove.

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Synonyms for “no”

Other words for “no” include negative, nay, not, hardly, scarcely, barely, by no means, in no way.

Word families for “no”

Noes

Common misspellings of “no”

Nu

Similar words to “no”

Ino, nco, neo, noa, nob, nod, nog, noh, noy, nol, nom, non, noo, nor, nos, not, nou, nov, now, nox, ono

Scrambled words derived from “no”

On

Words that rhyme with “no”

Go, show, flow, grow, slow, snow, throw, know, low, row, glow, crow, sew, toe, foe, dough, blow, mow, stow, bow

Crossword clues for “no”

Negative response concealed in unknown (2).

Fun facts about the word “no”

The word “no” has a Scrabble score of 2 and reads on in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “no”

November Oscar

The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“no” spelled in Morse code

-. --- (dash dot dash dash dash).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “no”

Lowercase word: 110 111

Uppercase word: 78 79

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “no”

Lowercase word: 1101110 1101111

Uppercase word: 1001110 1001111

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “no”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x6E 0x6F

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x4E 0x4F

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “no”

Lowercase: 110 111

Upprcase: 78 79

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “no”

Lowercase: 156 157

Upprcase: 116 117

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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