forsook
/fɔɹˈsʊk/
"forsook" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forsook” is uncommon English (frequency #90,455 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,455
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past of forsake
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forsook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɔɹˈsʊk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “forsook” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
forsook is uncommon English at frequency #90,455 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fɔɹˈsʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past of forsake".
forsook has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is forsook, spelled F-O-R-S-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1simple past of forsake
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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Using “forsook”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-R-S-O-O-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.