mook
/muːk/
"mook" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mook” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,363
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A disagreeable or incompetent person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mook · mook · English
mook · rank #48,363 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,363
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH morbidly
Nearest frequency peer: morbidly (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mook”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- mistral
mistral
51,641 corpus weight
- mockingly
mockingly
51,640 corpus weight
- mook
mook
51,638 corpus weight
- morbidly
morbidly
51,637 corpus weight
- Moresby
Moresby
51,636 corpus weight
- mudd
mudd
51,634 corpus weight
What this shows “mook” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /muːk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mook”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mook (IPA /muːk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,363 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mook, with forms such as "mmook", "mok", and "moko". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MoS", "mop", "MOR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkey”); a variant of US slang mooch (“a sponger, beggar, idler”); Irish muc (“pig”); Dutch mok, German Mocke, Mucke (both dialectal for “sow” and hence “slovenly or both… The correct English form is mook, spelled M-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A disagreeable or incompetent person.
- 2An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.
Etymology
From the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkey”); a variant of US slang mooch (“a sponger, beggar, idler”); Irish muc (“pig”); Dutch mok, German Mocke, Mucke (both dialectal for “sow” and hence “slovenly or bothersome woman/person”); a corruption of Italian mammalucco (“fool”, literally “mamluk”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmook
- mok
- moko
- mookk
- omok
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mook - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mook", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).