Home › Words › P › pokanoketpokanoketpokanoket means A member of the headship tribe of the many tribes that make up the Wampanoag Nation.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, pokanoket ranks #16,734 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Massachusett Pauquunaukit, from pokhi (“clear”) + wunok (“land”) + -ut (“locative suffix”).nounA member of the headship tribe of the many tribes that make up the Wampanoag Nation.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.wampanoag 69% match — A member of a Native American tribe located in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. vs pokanoket →powhatan 63% match — A member of a Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia. vs pokanoket →pawtucket 63% match — A member of a confederation of Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native Americans in present-day northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire. vs pokanoket →pamunkey 62% match — A member of a certain recognised indigenous tribe of Virginia. vs pokanoket →nauset 58% match — A member of a Native American tribe who lived in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, east of Bass River and lands occupied by the Wampanoag. vs pokanoket →shinnecock 57% match — A member of a Native American tribe in the Town of Southampton, New York. vs pokanoket →penobscot 56% match — One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine. vs pokanoket →pokot 54% match — A member of a people living in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in Uganda. vs pokanoket →