hooch
/huːt͡ʃ/noun
hooch is spelled H-O-O-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hooch means “An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hooch is hooches.
How many letters and syllables are in hooch?
| Letters | 5: H-O-O-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 48,230th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is hooch?
Hooch appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th 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 hooch?
- /huːt͡ʃ/
Hooch has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-hooch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hooch
- hooches plural
- hootch
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hooch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSinformalAn alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
- 2
A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
- 3
Alternative form of hoosh (“type of stew”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hooch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inferior liquor:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hooch come from?
Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).