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phở

phở is the alternative spelling of pho.

Meaning of pho

Noun

pho (usually uncountable, plural phos)

  1. (usually) A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.
    • PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man, a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations, p. 802 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003591769;view=1up;seq=816

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Questions about phở

What is phở the alternative spelling of?
Phở is the alternative spelling of pho.

Words near phở in the dictionary

  1. phœnomenon
  2. phœtal
  3. phœti
  4. phœtus
  5. phœtuses
  6. phở
  7. pi
  8. pi bond
  9. pi bonds
  10. pi character
  11. pi characters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phở (page history and authors); pho (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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