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PornHub

Syllables: Porn·hubUK/ˈpɔːn.hʌb//ˈpoɹn.hʌb/

PornHub is the misspelling of Pornhub.

Proper noun capitalized: Pornhub

Pornhub

  1. (Internet, trademark) A pornographic video-sharing website.
    • Sites like Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube attract more users than TMZ and the Huffington Post. The porn sites are even bigger than Pirate Bay, the top portal for illegal downloads of movies, TV shows and music.2009 August 10, Ben Fritz, “Tough times in the porn biz”, in Los Angeles Times, page B3
    • Only 1 in 24,000 PornHub^([sic]) searches by men are explicitly for preteens; that may have something to do with the fact that PornHub,^([sic]) for obvious reasons, bans all forms of child pornography and possessing it is illegal.2017, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 121
    Synonyms:
    PH, Phub, Hornpub, the Hub, ⬛️🟧, Cornhub, orange site

Noun capitalized: Pornhub

Pornhub (plural Pornhubs)

  1. (informal) A pornographic website; a porn tube.
    • As invasive as the Googles and Pornhubs of the world having access to our most private searches may be, it does occasionally give us a wider, more accurate view of ourselves. Can you imagine a Gallup poll on pornogaphic habits? Probably not.2013 July 24, Mark Wilson, “Infographic: Mapping The United States By Its Porn Searches”, in Fast Company, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2021
    • Addressing Twitter's inability to rein in pornographic content, DisinfoLab has compiled a report on its lax policy, which fails to keep a check on objectionable videos that can be easily accessible on the platform. Calling Twitter the "PornHub"^([sic]) of social media, the report said that videos...2021 August 30, “Twitter runs a full-fledged porn industry: DisinfoLab Report”, in Exchange4media, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2021

Synonyms of PornHub

Forms of PornHub

pluralPornhubs

Origin of PornHub

From porn (“pornography”) + hub (“a central facility providing a range of related services”), so-called because the website hosts pornographic videos; but Pornhub was originally part of a parent company called Interhub, which may have potentially inspired its name. Coined by founder Matt Keezer in May 2007. The noun sense is derived from the prominence of Pornhub.

Words formed from PornHub

Words that rhyme with PornHub

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Questions about PornHub

What does PornHub mean?
PornHub means a pornographic video-sharing website.
What is PornHub the misspelling of?
PornHub is the misspelling of Pornhub.
What part of speech is PornHub?
PornHub can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce PornHub?
PornHub is pronounced /ˈpoɹn.hʌb/ (US).

Words near PornHub in the dictionary

  1. pornfests
  2. Porngate
  3. porngrind
  4. pornhua
  5. pornhuas
  6. PornHub
  7. Pornhuber
  8. Pornhubers
  9. PornHubs
  10. pornhwa
  11. pornhwas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PornHub (page history and authors); Pornhub (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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