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hotep

ho·tep/ˈhoʊ.tɛp/noun

hotep is spelled H-O-T-E-P: 5 letters and 2 syllables (ho·tep). It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory noun, hotep means “A subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hotep is hoteps.

How many letters and syllables are in hotep?

Letters5: H-O-T-E-P
Syllables2: ho·tep
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th 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 hotep?

Hotep appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 hotep?

  • UK /ˈhəʊ.tɛp/
  • US /ˈhoʊ.tɛp/

Hotep has 2 syllables, split ho·tep in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hotep.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of hotep

  • hoteps plural

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

What does hotep mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryinformalA subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories.

noun

as Hotep
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of hotep.

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

Where does hotep come from?

From Egyptian Htp:t*p (ḥtp, “to be content, at peace; contentment, peace”), a common element of Ancient Egyptian personal names, with the vowels taken over from its descendant, Coptic ϩⲱⲧⲡ̄ (hōtp̄); Ancient Egypt is the focus of several Afrocentric conspiracy theories.

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

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