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moonshiner

noun

moonshiner is spelled M-O-O-N-S-H-I-N-E-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, moonshiner means “Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of moonshiner is moonshiners.

How many letters and syllables are in moonshiner?

Letters10: M-O-O-N-S-H-I-N-E-R
In writingabout once in every 33 million words; the 176,009th 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 moonshiner?

Moonshiner appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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 moonshiner

  • moonshiners plural

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

What does moonshiner mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).

    Near-synonyms: bootlegger; rum-runner

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

Where does moonshiner come from?

From moonshine + -er.

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

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