poke fun
"poke-fun" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poke fun” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To subject someone to laughter or ridicule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poke fun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poke fun” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for poke fun is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To subject someone to laughter or ridicule.".
No misspelling variants are generated for poke fun in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 poke fun, spelled P-O-K-E- -F-U-N.
Definition
- 1To subject someone to laughter or ridicule.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “poke fun”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-K-E- -F-U-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.