linkvsLukWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: link is a noun, Luk is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“link” is a noun and “Luk” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,108
“link” frequency rank
#45,495
“Luk” frequency rank
46603
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature link Luk
Definition A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. A surname.

Letter map: link vs Luk

Shared letters muted; letters that set link and Luk apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
link
3 ch
Luk

Part-of-speech tell for link / Luk

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: link is anoun and Lukaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46603, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

link is recorded at frequency rank #1,108, classified as anoun, pronounced /lɪŋk/. Luk is at rank #45,495, tagged as aname.

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 46603, this pair ranks #210,204 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of link vs Luk

Shared letters: kl. Private to "link": in. Private to "Luk": u.

"link" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Luk" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • linkilnk · likn · linkk · linnk · llink · lnik

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "link" and "Luk" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "link" is a noun and "Luk" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "link" or "Luk" show up more?
"link" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,108 in our English list, against #45,495 for "Luk". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "link" and "Luk". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "link" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Luk" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #210,204 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "link" and "Luk" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "LSC vs Luk". 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 #210,204 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