# mook

> English word · Noun · IPA /muːk/ · frequency rank #48,363

## Definitions
1. A disagreeable or incompetent person.
2. An 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **MoS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mos)
- **mop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mop)
- **MOR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mor)
- **mou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mou)
- **mot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mot)
- **mow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mow)
- **Moz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moz)
- **more** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-more)
- **most** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-most)
- **move** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-move)
- **moon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moon)
- **moss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moss)
- **moth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moth)
- **musk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-musk)
- **moto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moto)
- **moor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moor)
- **moot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-moot)
- **Mori** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mori)
- **muck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-muck)
- **mora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mook-vs-mora)

## Common misspellings (5)
`mmook`, `mok`, `moko`, `mookk`, `omok`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mook