meat hook
"meat-hook" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meat hook” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meat-hook · meat hook · English
meat hook · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meat hook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meat hook” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meat hook is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for meat hook in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is meat hook, spelled M-E-A-T- -H-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
- 2One's hands or arms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meat hook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Keep your meat hooks off my radio.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.