Which to use
“wide” and “woke” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,177
- “wide” frequency rank
- #4,999
- “woke” frequency rank
- 6176
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | wide | woke |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Having a large physical extent from side to side. | Awake: conscious and not asleep. |
Where the eye mixes wide and woke
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. wide (/waɪd/) and woke (/wəʊk/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6176, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
wide is recorded at frequency rank #1,177, classified as anadj, pronounced /waɪd/. woke is at rank #4,999, tagged as anadj, pronounced /wəʊk/.
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 6176, this pair ranks #512,436 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of wide vs woke
Shared letters: ew. Private to "wide": di. Private to "woke": ko.
"wide" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "woke" · 4 letters · shape CVCV