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monke

noun

monke is spelled M-O-N-K-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, monke means “A monkey or ape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of monke is monkes.

How many letters and syllables are in monke?

Letters5: M-O-N-K-E
In writingabout once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th 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 monke?

Monke appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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 monke

  • monkes plural

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

What does monke mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A monkey or ape.

  2. 2

    A primitive way of living, humorously viewed as ideal.

    Return to monke.

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

Where does monke come from?

From a shortened spelling or deliberate misspelling of monkey; gained new meaning after development as an Internet meme.

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

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