poker
/ˈpoʊkɚ/noun, verb
poker is spelled P-O-K-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is pocker: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 137 of all searches for the word. Poker is a noun meaning “A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick”. The plural of poker is pokers.
How many letters and syllables are in poker?
| Letters | 5: P-O-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pocker, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell poker?
Poker is spelled P-O-K-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 137 of the searches for poker in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is poker?
Poker appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce poker?
- US /ˈpoʊkɚ/
- UK /ˈpəʊkə/
- UK /ˈpəʉkə/
Poker has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-poker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with poker?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as poker from its last stressed vowel (/oʊkəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of poker
- pokers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- pokering participle, present
- pokered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does poker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
- 2
A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
- 3
One who pokes.
- 4
A kind of duck, the pochard.
- 5
slangA knife.
- 6
UKobsoleteslangA bedel (who carries a silver mace).
- 7
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
- 8
All the four cards of the same rank.
- 9
rareThe scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
- 10
UScolloquialAny imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
verb
- 1
To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
- 2
To play poker.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Poker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tisonnier , poker |
| German | Schüreisen, Schürhaken , Poker |
| Portuguese | atiçador, tiçoeiro , pôquer, póquer , cutucador |
| Spanish | atizador , póquer, póker |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does poker come from?
From poke + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).