# hooch

> English word · Noun · IPA /huːt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #48,284

## Definitions
1. An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **hook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hook)
- **hood** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hood)
- **hoop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hoop)
- **hoof** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hoof)
- **hoon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hoon)
- **hoot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hoot)
- **hooks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hooks)
- **hoops** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hoops)
- **hoods** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hoods)
- **hunch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hunch)
- **hutch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hutch)
- **hough** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hough)
- **hookah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooch-vs-hookah)
- **hoo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hoo-vs-hooch)
- **hoh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hoh-vs-hooch)
- **hock** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hock-vs-hooch)
- **hatch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hatch-vs-hooch)
- **hitch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hitch-vs-hooch)

## Common misspellings (7)
`hhooch`, `hoch`, `hocoh`, `hoocch`, `hoochh`, `hoohc`, `ohoch`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hooch