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kinkajou
8 letters · 7 distinct letters
- noun
arboreal fruit eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
- noun
a kind of gray brown lemur (Perodicticus potto)
Word history
From French quincajou, from an Algonquian word, probably originally meaning ‘wolverine’, which was later transferred to the South American animal. Related to carcajou.
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Why this word counts
- 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
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
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