# woke vs wook

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### woke
*adjective · IPA /wəʊk/ · frequency rank #4,999*
Awake: conscious and not asleep.

### wook
*noun · frequency rank #38,248*
An unwashed, unemployed moocher who enjoys traveling to festivals and crashes at other people's houses.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woke-vs-wook