fork

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for fork is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɔːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,690 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utensil mit zwei oder mehreren Zinken, das in der Küche oder beim Essen zum Halten und Befördern fester Nahrungsteile benutzt wird".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fork in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is fork, spelled F-O-R-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.