loke
"loke" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loke” is uncommon English (frequency #74,273 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,273
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The wicket or hatch of a door.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loke · loke · English
loke · rank #74,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,273
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Llangollen
Nearest frequency peer: Llangollen (-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 “loke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lilt
lilt
25,732 corpus weight
- lionfish
lionfish
25,730 corpus weight
- Llangollen
Llangollen
25,729 corpus weight
- loke
loke
25,728 corpus weight
- lovelier
lovelier
25,724 corpus weight
- maintainable
maintainable
25,718 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loke is uncommon English at frequency #74,273 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
loke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English loke, from Old English loca (“a bar, bolt; enclosure, stronghold”), from Proto-Germanic *lukô, *lukǭ (“lock, clasp, shutter, opening”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Icelandic loka (“clasp, latch, lock, … The correct English form is loke, spelled L-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1The wicket or hatch of a door.
- 2A close narrow lane; a cul-de-sac.
- 3A private path or road.
- 4A small field or meadow.
Etymology
From Middle English loke, from Old English loca (“a bar, bolt; enclosure, stronghold”), from Proto-Germanic *lukô, *lukǭ (“lock, clasp, shutter, opening”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Icelandic loka (“clasp, latch, lock, bolt”). More at lock.
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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