snoek
noun
snoek is spelled S-N-O-E-K: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snoek means “An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in snoek?
| Letters | 5: S-N-O-E-K |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 37 million words; the 187,122nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is snoek?
Snoek appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
What rhymes with snoek?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as snoek.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: snoke, soken.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of snoek
- snook
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does snoek mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
- 2
The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.
- 3
Any of several species of barracuda.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does snoek come from?
Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun. Doublet of snook and possibly a distant doublet of snake.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).