fork
[fɔːk]
The verdict
“fork” is an uncommon German word, ranked #53,690 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,690
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Utensil mit zwei oder mehreren Zinken, das in der Küche oder beim Essen zum Halten und Befördern fester Nahrungsteile benutzt wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fork |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɔːk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fork” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for fork is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, 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".
Zero misspellings are on record for fork in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is fork, spelled F-O-R-K.
Definition
- 1Utensil mit zwei oder mehreren Zinken, das in der Küche oder beim Essen zum Halten und Befördern fester Nahrungsteile benutzt wird
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fork”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is F-O-R-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [fɔːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.