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wonkette

noun

wonkette is spelled W-O-N-K-E-T-T-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wonkette means “A female wonk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wonkette is wonkettes.

How many letters and syllables are in wonkette?

Letters8: W-O-N-K-E-T-T-E
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th 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 wonkette?

Wonkette appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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 wonkette

  • wonkettes plural

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

What does wonkette mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalA female wonk.

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

Where does wonkette come from?

From wonk + -ette.

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

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