bok
/bɑk/
"bok" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bok” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,339) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,339
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Keen or willing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bok · bok · English
bok · rank #30,339 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,339
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bondi
Nearest frequency peer: Bondi (+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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “bok”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- bionic
bionic
69,666 corpus weight
- blurring
blurring
69,665 corpus weight
- boardroom
boardroom
69,664 corpus weight
- bok
bok
69,662 corpus weight
- Bondi
Bondi
69,661 corpus weight
- bottomless
bottomless
69,659 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “bok” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | bok |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bɑk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “bok”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bok is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BS", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /bɑk/. Frequency #30,339 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Keen or willing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bok in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BS", "br", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”). The correct English form is bok, spelled B-O-K.
Definition
- 1Keen or willing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."
Etymology
From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).