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Mohole

noun

Mohole is spelled M-O-H-O-L-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Mohole means “A hole drilled through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, part of a scientific project of the 1960s” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Mohole is Moholes.

How many letters and syllables are in Mohole?

Letters6: M-O-H-O-L-E
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th 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 Mohole?

Mohole appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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 Mohole

  • Moholes plural

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

What does Mohole mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A hole drilled through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, part of a scientific project of the 1960s.

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

Where does Mohole come from?

Blend of Mohorovičić discontinuity + hole.

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

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