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hoon
/hun/ · 4 letters · 3 distinct letters
hoon is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901 to 1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.
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- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 70: the largest list we accept, where the rarer words live.
- How common it is
- Used about once in every million words.
- In the spelling bee
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