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sneakerhead

noun

sneakerhead is spelled S-N-E-A-K-E-R-H-E-A-D: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sneakerhead means “A person who owns multiple pairs of shoes as a form of collection and fashion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sneakerhead is sneakerheads.

How many letters and syllables are in sneakerhead?

Letters11: S-N-E-A-K-E-R-H-E-A-D
In writingabout once in every 29 million words; the 163,711th 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 sneakerhead?

Sneakerhead appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).

How do you pronounce sneakerhead?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sneakerhead.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sneakerhead

  • sneakerheads plural

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

What does sneakerhead mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangA person who owns multiple pairs of shoes as a form of collection and fashion.

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

Where does sneakerhead come from?

From sneaker + -head. The birth of sneakerhead culture came in the late 1980s and can be attributed to two major sources: basketball and hip hop music.

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

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