Wok
[vɔk]
The verdict
“Wok” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,270) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,270
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chinesische Form der Pfanne, ähnelt eher einer großen Metallschüssel
Corpus desk
Index DE-wok · Wok · German
Wok · rank #42,270 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,270
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wirtschaftlic…
Nearest frequency peer: wirtschaftlichem (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Wok“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Winnenden
Winnenden
57,735 corpus weight
- winterlichen
winterlichen
57,734 corpus weight
- winziger
winziger
57,733 corpus weight
- wirtschaftl…
wirtschaftlichem
57,732 corpus weight
- Wok
Wok
57,731 corpus weight
- wüten
wüten
57,727 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Wok“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wok |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vɔk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Wok“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Wok is neighbouring look-alikes ("Wu", "WP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [vɔk]. Frequency #42,270 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "chinesische Form der Pfanne, ähnelt eher einer großen Metallschüssel".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Wok in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Wu", "WP", "WS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Wok, spelled W-O-K.
Definition
- 1chinesische Form der Pfanne, ähnelt eher einer großen Metallschüssel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Wok ist die ideale Pfanne, um schnell und sparsam auf offenem Feuer kleingeschnittene Zutaten in ein Gericht zu verwandeln.“
Synonyms
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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