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goonda

noun

goonda is spelled G-O-O-N-D-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goonda means “A hired thug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goonda is goondas.

How many letters and syllables are in goonda?

Letters6: G-O-O-N-D-A
In writingabout once in every 40 million words; the 194,306th 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 goonda?

Goonda appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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).

Forms of goonda

  • goondas plural
  • gunda

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

What does goonda mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialA hired thug.

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

Where does goonda come from?

Borrowed from Hindi गुंडा (guṇḍā).

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

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