chok
/xoʊk/
"chok" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chok” is uncommon English (frequency #82,175 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,175
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A law or commandment without a comprehensible explanation or purpose.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chok · chok · English
chok · rank #82,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,175
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH choirmaster
Nearest frequency peer: choirmaster (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “chok”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chay
chay
17,833 corpus weight
- Cheatham
Cheatham
17,832 corpus weight
- Chel
Chel
17,831 corpus weight
- choirmaster
choirmaster
17,827 corpus weight
- chok
chok
17,826 corpus weight
- civet
civet
17,822 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chok” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chok |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /xoʊk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chok” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chok is uncommon English at frequency #82,175 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /xoʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A law or commandment without a comprehensible explanation or purpose.".
chok doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew חֹק (khók). The correct English form is chok, spelled C-H-O-K.
Definition
- 1A law or commandment without a comprehensible explanation or purpose.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew חֹק (khók).
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).