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hoodrat

noun

hoodrat is spelled H-O-O-D-R-A-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hoodrat means “A sexually promiscuous woman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hoodrat is hoodrats.

How many letters and syllables are in hoodrat?

Letters7: H-O-O-D-R-A-T
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th 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 hoodrat?

Hoodrat appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 hoodrat?

  • Australia

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

Forms of hoodrat

  • hoodrats plural

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

What does hoodrat mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangA sexually promiscuous woman.

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  2. 2

    slangAlternative form of hood rat.

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

Where does hoodrat come from?

From hood + rat. See (slang) hood (“neighbourhood”).

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

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