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murukku

noun

murukku is spelled M-U-R-U-K-K-U: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, murukku means “A snack originating in India, usually made of rice or urad dal flour, formed into a twisty shape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of murukku is murukkus.

How many letters and syllables are in murukku?

Letters7: M-U-R-U-K-K-U
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th 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 murukku?

Murukku appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 murukku

  • murukkus plural

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

What does murukku mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A snack originating in India, usually made of rice or urad dal flour, formed into a twisty shape.

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

Where does murukku come from?

From Tamil முறுக்கு (muṟukku).

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

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