poke fun
"poke-fun" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poke fun” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To subject someone to laughter or ridicule.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poke-fun · poke fun · English
poke fun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poke fun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “poke fun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
poke fun is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poke fun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trot laughed, but Cap'n Bill thought the little man was poking fun at him and so he scowled upon Pessim in a way that showed he was angry.
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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.