Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hiwi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hi-wi
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a nomadic hunter-gatherer people of the South American flatlands.

noun

A foreigner who volunteered to serve the Nazis.

Etymology

From German Hiwi, short for Hilfswilliger (“voluntary assistant, one willing to help”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Hiwi

Inflected Forms

Hiwis (plural)

Questions

What does hiwi mean?: A member of a nomadic hunter-gatherer people of the South American flatlands.
Where does hiwi come from?: It is traced to German.

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