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Kunekune

noun

Kunekune is spelled K-U-N-E-K-U-N-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Kunekune means “A small, hairy breed of domestic pig that originated in New Zealand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Kunekune is Kunekunes.

How many letters and syllables are in Kunekune?

Letters8: K-U-N-E-K-U-N-E
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd 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 Kunekune?

Kunekune appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 Kunekune

  • Kunekunes plural

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

What does Kunekune mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A small, hairy breed of domestic pig that originated in New Zealand.

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

Where does Kunekune come from?

From Māori kunekune “round, plump” reduplicated from kune “to swell”.

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

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