chook
/t͡ʃʊk/noun, interjection
chook is spelled C-H-O-O-K: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chook means “A chicken, especially a hen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chook is chooks.
How many letters and syllables are in chook?
| Letters | 5: C-H-O-O-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 78,613th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is chook?
Chook appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce chook?
- /t͡ʃʊk/
Chook has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_chook.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with chook?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as chook.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: kocho, choko.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of chook
- chooks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chook mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
AustraliainformalA chicken, especially a hen.
- 2
AustraliainformalA cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
- 3
AustraliadatedA fool.
- 4
AustraliaAffectionate name for a person
interjection
- 1
AustraliaA call made to chickens.
- 2
An imitation of the call of a chicken.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chook in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense call made to chickens:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | put |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chook come from?
From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).