# Mohawk

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmoʊhɔːk/ · frequency rank #24,243

## Definitions
1. A member of an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
2. A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.
3. A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.

## Etymology
From Dutch Mohawk.
An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”. The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

## Easily confused with
- **Mohan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mohan-vs-mohawk)

## Common misspellings (9)
`mhoawk`, `mmohawk`, `moahwk`, `mohakw`, `mohawkk`, `mohawwk`, `mohhawk`, `mohwak`, `omhawk`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mohawk