Hooke
/hʊk/
"hooke" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hooke” is uncommon English (frequency #55,496 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,496
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Middle English derived from hook, as an occupational or topographical name or a nickname.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hooke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /hʊk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hooke” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hooke is uncommon English at frequency #55,496 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /hʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Hooke in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Hooke, spelled H-O-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Middle English derived from hook, as an occupational or topographical name or a nickname.
- 2Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703), an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. His best remembered contribution was the discovery of the biological cell.
- 3A village in Dorset, England.
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 “Hooke”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-O-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /hʊk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.