hunks
/hʌŋks/noun
hunks is spelled H-U-N-K-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hunks means “plural of hunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hunks is hunkses.
How many letters and syllables are in hunks?
| Letters | 5: H-U-N-K-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 50,539th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is hunks?
Hunks appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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 hunks?
- /hʌŋks/
Hunks 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-hunks.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hunks?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as hunks.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: shunk.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of hunks
- hunkses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hunks mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of hunk
- 2
datedslangA crotchety or surly person.
- 3
datedslangA stingy man; a miser.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does hunks come from?
Inflected forms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).