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honker

noun

honker is spelled H-O-N-K-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, honker means “One who honks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of honker is honkers.

How many letters and syllables are in honker?

Letters6: H-O-N-K-E-R
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 honker?

Honker appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 honker?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-honker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of honker

  • honkers plural

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

What does honker mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who honks.

  2. 2

    informalA large nose.

  3. 3

    informalA wild goose.

  4. 4

    slangA woman's breast.

  5. 5

    slangAnything impressively large; a whopper.

    I caught a real honker of a fish.

  6. 6

    slangA loud burst of flatulence.

  7. 7

    slangThe telephone.

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

Where does honker come from?

From honk + -er.

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

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