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kinderhook

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English

Syllables
kinder-hook
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Columbia County, New York, United States.

name

Any of various other towns and places named for the original.

Etymology

Coined by Henry Hudson in 1609 from Dutch kinder- (“children”, combining form) + hoek (“hook; corner”), remembering the many native children assembled curiously watching the ship sailing up the Hudson River.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

Kinderhookian

Phrases

Old Kinderhook

Questions

What does kinderhook mean?
A town in Columbia County, New York, United States.
Where does kinderhook come from?
It is traced to Dutch.

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