tok
[tɔk]
The verdict
“tok” is uncommon German (frequency #67,789 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,789
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fließende Flüssigkeit, oder auch ein anderes Medium; Strom, Strömung, Fluss
Corpus desk
Index DE-tok · tok · German
tok · rank #67,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,789
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Todesdrohungen
Nearest frequency peer: Todesdrohungen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „tok“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tiefkühltru…
Tiefkühltruhe
32,216 corpus weight
- Timbuktu
Timbuktu
32,214 corpus weight
- Todesdrohun…
Todesdrohungen
32,213 corpus weight
- tok
tok
32,212 corpus weight
- Tontechniker
Tontechniker
32,211 corpus weight
- Toulon
Toulon
32,208 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tok“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tok |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tɔk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tok“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tok is uncommon German at frequency #67,789 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tok, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is tok, spelled T-O-K.
Definition
- 1fließende Flüssigkeit, oder auch ein anderes Medium; Strom, Strömung, Fluss
- 2bestimmter Abschnitt eines Wasserlaufs; Strom, Fluss, Lauf
- 3Verhalten einiger Vogelarten bei der Partnersuche; Balz
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
V meandrech je tok řeky pomalý.
Na horním toku řeky byla postavena přehrada.
This word in other languages
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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