You can make 3 words from zoo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of zoo
zoo ozo zoo ozo ooz ooz
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word zoo. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in zoo.
Definitions and meaning of zoo
zoo
Etymology
Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /zuː/
Rhymes: -uː
Noun
zoo (pluralzoos)
A park where live animals are exhibited.
(informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
(informal, figuratively) A large and varied collection of something.
(US, military, slang) The jungle.
2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
(slang) A zoophile.
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Catalan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central)[ˈzo.u]
IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian)[ˈzo.o]
Noun
zoom (pluralzoos)
Clipping of zoològic.
Further reading
“zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈzoo]
Noun
zoof or n
zoo
Synonym:zoologická zahrada
Declension
Normally indeclinable. When neuter, can be declined as follows, although it is dated:
Further reading
zoo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
zoo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
(zoology) nature preserve, zoo, zoological garden, zoological park
Synonyms:ogród zoologiczny, zoolog, zwierzyniec
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Further reading
zoo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
zoo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
zôo(Brazil, superseded)
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -u, -ou
Noun
zoom (pluralzoos)
Clipping of jardim zoológico.
Synonym:(Brazil)zoológico
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -ou
Hyphenation: zo‧o
Verb
zoo
first-person singular present indicative of zoar
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchzoo.
Noun
zoon (uncountable)
zoo
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Spain)/ˈθoo/[ˈθo.o]
IPA(key): (Latin America)/ˈsoo/[ˈso.o]
Rhymes: -oo
Syllabification: zo‧o
Noun
zoom (pluralzoos)
zoo
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Further reading
“zoo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /suː/
Homophone: so
Noun
zoon
zoo
Declension
Related terms
zoo-
References
zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong-Mien*-ʔrɔŋH(“good”), possibly borrowed from Old Chinese良(*raŋ, “good”). Cognate with Iu Mienlongx.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʐɒ̃˧/
Adjective
zoo
good, fair, fine, well
Derived terms
References
Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
Yola
Interjection
zoo
Alternative form of zo
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 82