chook
/t͡ʃʊk/
"chook" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chook” is uncommon English (frequency #78,474 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,474
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A chicken, especially a hen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chook · chook · English
chook · rank #78,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,474
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH circulator
Nearest frequency peer: circulator (+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 “chook”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chaya
chaya
21,532 corpus weight
- chook
chook
21,527 corpus weight
- circulator
circulator
21,526 corpus weight
- classwork
classwork
21,525 corpus weight
- cloaca
cloaca
21,523 corpus weight
- Cloverdale
Cloverdale
21,521 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chook” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃʊk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chook” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chook is uncommon English at frequency #78,474 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /t͡ʃʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
chook doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck. The correct English form is chook, spelled C-H-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A chicken, especially a hen.
- 2A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
- 3A fool.
- 4Affectionate name for a person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329, This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by…
Etymology
From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
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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