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coke

/koʊk/noun, verb

coke is spelled C-O-K-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, coke means “Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of coke is cokes.

How many letters and syllables are in coke?

Letters4: C-O-K-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 coke?

Coke appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 coke?

  • UK /kəʊk/
  • US /koʊk/
  • Australia /koʉk/

Coke 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-coke.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Coke.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with coke?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as coke from its last stressed vowel (/oʊk/):

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 coke

  • coak
  • cokes present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • coking participle, present
  • coked participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does coke mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

    The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

  2. 2

    informalslangCocaine.

  3. 3

    informalAlternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

  4. 4

    informalAlternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

  5. 5

    USinformalAlternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

verb

  1. 1

    To produce coke from coal.

  2. 2

    To turn into coke.

  3. 3

    To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

    In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.

noun

as Coke
  1. 1

    informalCola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.

  2. 2

    informalA bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.

  3. 3

    USinformalAny soft drink, regardless of type.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Coke in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcharbon, coke (coal product), coca (short for cocaine), Coke (informal: any cola-flavored drink)
GermanKoks (coal product), Cola (informal: any cola-flavored drink), koken (to produce coke), verkoken (to turn into coke), Coca-Cola (Coca-Cola)
Portuguesecoque (coal product), coca (short for cocaine), cola (informal: any cola-flavored drink), refri (informal: any soft drink)
Spanishcoque, cok (coal product), coca (short for cocaine), cola, bebida de cola, refresco de cola (informal: any cola-flavored drink)

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 coke come from?

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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