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honu

noun

honu is a noun meaning “A green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-N-U, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of honu is honus.

What does honu mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas.

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

Forms of honu

  • honus plural

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

How common is honu?

Honu appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).

Where does honu come from?

Borrowed from Hawaiian honu.

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