wookvsworksWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#38,248
“wook” frequency rank
#522
“works” frequency rank
38770
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature wook works
Definition An unwashed, unemployed moocher who enjoys traveling to festivals and crashes at other people's houses. plural of work in its countable senses

Letter map: wook vs works

Shared letters muted; letters that set wook and works apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
wook
5 ch
works

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

wook and works 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 38770, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

wook is recorded at frequency rank #38,248, classified as anoun. works is at rank #522, tagged as anoun, pronounced /wɜːks/.

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 38770, this pair ranks #282,937 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of wook vs works

Shared letters: kow. Private to "wook": -. Private to "works": rs.

"wook" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "works" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • wookowok · woko · wookk · wwook
  • worksowrks · wokrs · workks · workss · worrks · worsk · wroks · wworks

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "wook" and "works" 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.
Which is more common, "wook" or "works"?
"works" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #522 in our English list, against #38,248 for "wook". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list