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“chokes” and “coker” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#31,913
“chokes” frequency rank
#39,742
“coker” frequency rank
71655
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature chokes coker
Definition plural of choke The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured

Letter map: chokes vs coker

Shared letters muted; letters that set chokes and coker apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. chokes runs 6 letters (CCVCVC) against coker's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
chokes
5 ch
coker

Corpus notes: chokes and coker

chokes and coker are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71655, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chokes is recorded at frequency rank #31,913, classified as anoun, pronounced /tʃəʊks/. coker is at rank #39,742, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 71655, this pair ranks #45,929 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of chokes vs coker

Shared letters: ceko. Private to "chokes": hs. Private to "coker": r.

"chokes" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "coker" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • chokes ← cchokes · chhokes · chkoes · choeks · chokess · chokkes · chokse · cohkes
  • coker ← ckoer · coekr · cokerr · cokker · cokre · ocker

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "chokes" and "coker" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary English text, does "chokes" or "coker" show up more?
"chokes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,913 in our English list, against #39,742 for "coker". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "chokes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "coker" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #45,929 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "chokes" and "coker" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coker vs cower". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #45,929 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list