hogwarts
/ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
name
Any institution similar in field, appearance, oddity, etc.
Example Sentences
- "Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there. Dawn: Yeah, Mom. I'm not going to Hogwarts."
- "Remember [...] what it was like to enter your first public or private school, or to arrive at places like Oxford, or Yale, or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?"
- "2005 A Modern Introduction To Probability And Statistics: Understanding Why and How by Michel Dekking, Frederik Michel Dekking, Cor Kraaikamp, H. P. Lopuhaä, L. E. Meester (page 126) http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1852338962&id=XLUMIlombgQC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&ots=846rcIuft_&dq=%22+have+to+be+a+student+at+Hogwarts+to+be+able+to+get+the+values+of+p+night%22&sig=d0PEF2RXCs5j1EQECJuf-2QoSdQ Since px(0), px(1), py(0) and py(1) are all equal to 1/2, knowing only px and py yields no information on ε whatsoever. You have to be a student at Hogwarts to be able to get the values of p right!"
- "2005 2005 Wicca Almanac by various, Llewellyn, Elizabeth Barrette http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0738703087&id=wdVSV_qgBksC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=hogwarts&sig=APdluHbvH2rKPLxTvxx6e7tpYkY Teaching, if you've never done it, is a difficult task. There isn't a real-life Hogwarts to send your aspiring young Witch or wizard to, so teaching children falls to you, the parent."
- "When people plan out their actions, they do more. When they write out their fears, they solve more. You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic."
- "The school, which is set within a grand castle (it's all very Hogwarts), is an international college for students who are selected for their potential"
Etymology
Coined by J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens. Previously used by Geoffrey Willans in his 1953 book Down With Skool (which J. K. Rowling has read - see the article). Willans’ use was as the title of a fictitious play, “The Hogwarts”, referred to in the book as the creation of Marcus Plautus Molesworthus. In-universe, interpreted as a simple compound of hog + warts (cf. warthog).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɔɡ.wɔɹts/
- British English: /ˈhɒɡ.wɔːts/