cloke
"cloke" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cloke” is uncommon English (frequency #94,687 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,687
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of cloak.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cloke · cloke · English
cloke · rank #94,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,687
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clerestory
Nearest frequency peer: clerestory (-2 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 “cloke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- citalopram
citalopram
5,318 corpus weight
- clerestory
clerestory
5,316 corpus weight
- cloke
cloke
5,314 corpus weight
- Coan
Coan
5,312 corpus weight
- coble
coble
5,311 corpus weight
- cocooned
cocooned
5,310 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cloke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cloke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cloke is uncommon English at frequency #94,687 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archaic spelling of cloak.".
cloke has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cloke, spelled C-L-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of cloak.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cloke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1926, The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Ireland, The Order for Morning Prayer the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart
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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