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nyuk

interjection

nyuk is spelled N-Y-U-K: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, nyuk means “An exaggerated laugh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in nyuk?

Letters4: N-Y-U-K
In writingabout once in every 31 million words; the 169,822nd 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 nyuk?

Nyuk appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 nyuk

  • hyuk
  • hyuck
  • nyuck

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

What does nyuk mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    An exaggerated laugh.

    Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

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

Where does nyuk come from?

Introduced by Curly (Jerome Horwitz) of The Three Stooges in the 1930's.

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

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