kooks
/kuːks/
"kooks" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kooks” is uncommon English (frequency #63,745 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,745
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of kook
Corpus desk
Index EN-kooks · kooks · English
kooks · rank #63,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,745
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Klerk
Nearest frequency peer: Klerk (-1 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 “kooks”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kishi
Kishi
36,260 corpus weight
- Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi
36,258 corpus weight
- Klerk
Klerk
36,257 corpus weight
- kooks
kooks
36,256 corpus weight
- Koons
Koons
36,255 corpus weight
- Kubiak
Kubiak
36,252 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kooks” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kooks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuːks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kooks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kooks is uncommon English at frequency #63,745 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kuːks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of kook".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kooks, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is kooks, spelled K-O-O-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of kook
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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