English homophones

yoke/yolk

"yoke" (#25,982 written frequency) beats "yolk" (#27,706) in this 2-word /jəʊk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage 2026-09-03

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /jəʊk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "yoke" leads at #25,982, with "yolk" trailing at #27,706.

Shared letters across yoke, yolk: koy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

Write "yoke" when you mean: Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
Write "yolk" when you mean: The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

noun · /jəʊk/ · #25,982 frequency

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

noun · /jəʊk/ · #27,706 frequency

The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.

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"yoke" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #25,982 in English). Full entry
Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: Yates · Yeats. Nearby cluster
Each spelling in "yoke, yolk" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry

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