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korowai

noun

korowai is spelled K-O-R-O-W-A-I: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, korowai means “A woven Maori cloak covered with muka tassels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of korowai is korowais.

How many letters and syllables are in korowai?

Letters7: K-O-R-O-W-A-I
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th 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 korowai?

Korowai appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).

Forms of korowai

  • korowais plural

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

What does korowai mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A woven Maori cloak covered with muka tassels.

noun

as Korowai
  1. 1

    A member of a people of southeastern Papua who are hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists.

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

Where does korowai come from?

From Māori korowai.

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

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