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howdunnit

howdunnit is the alternative spelling of howdunit.

Meaning of howdunit

Noun

howdunit (plural howdunits)

  1. A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the manner in which it was committed.
    • After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72

Forms of howdunnit

pluralhowdunnits

Questions about howdunnit

What is howdunnit the alternative spelling of?
Howdunnit is the alternative spelling of howdunit.

Words near howdunnit in the dictionary

  1. howdies
  2. howdja
  3. Howdon
  4. howdunit
  5. howdunits
  6. howdunnit
  7. howdunnits
  8. howdy
  9. howdy doody
  10. howdy-do
  11. howdy-dos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: howdunnit (page history and authors); howdunit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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