awoke
/əˈwəʊk/
"awoke" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“awoke” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,753
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of awake
Corpus desk
Index EN-awoke · awoke · English
awoke · rank #23,753 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,753
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH authorship
Nearest frequency peer: authorship (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “awoke”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- attainment
attainment
76,251 corpus weight
- auctioneer
auctioneer
76,250 corpus weight
- authorship
authorship
76,249 corpus weight
- awoke
awoke
76,248 corpus weight
- axial
axial
76,247 corpus weight
- Barnard
Barnard
76,246 corpus weight
What this shows “awoke” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awoke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈwəʊk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “awoke”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around awoke (IPA /əˈwəʊk/), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,753 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for awoke, with forms such as "aowke", "awkoe", and "awoek". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "AWOL", "awoken", "awe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is awoke, spelled A-W-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1simple past of awake
- 2past participle of awake
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aowke
- awkoe
- awoek
- awokke
- awwoke
- waoke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of awoke - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "awoke", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).