hapū
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of hapu.
Example Sentences
- "There are three hapūs interested in this land."
- "Over the hills is a town called Porangahau, we had a friendly rivalry, which still goes on, between the two hapūs, and Waipawa on the other end."
- "No doubt the attitude taken to signing by other, particularly neighbouring or powerful, hapū would have been vitally relevant – and the effects of those hapūs’ future relationship with Britain vis-à-vis that of their own hapū."
- "But the names of the mere refer to two famous Tainui ancestors, Kauwhata the father and Wehi Wehi his son, who were the eponymous ancestors of two hapū based on the west side of Maungatautari. Both hapū had suffered grievously from the operations of the Native Land Court and had travelled to Rotorua with the mere to have the Prince initiate investigations of their land loss."