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cooning

/ˈkuːnɪŋ/noun, verb

cooning is spelled C-O-O-N-I-N-G: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cooning means “Racoon hunting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cooning?

Letters7: C-O-O-N-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 63 million words; the 249,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cooning?

Cooning appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce cooning?

  • /ˈkuːnɪŋ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cooning mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Racoon hunting.

    At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of coon (a form of coon)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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