# Polk

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #21,619

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
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## Etymology
* As a Scottish surname, shortened from Pollock.
* As a Upper Sorbian surname Półk, Pólk, probably shortened from a personal name based on Proto-Slavic *plъkъ (“army, crowd”), see Polka.
* As an East German surname of Slavic origin, variant of Polke, itself from a Silesian form of Polish Bolesław.

## Easily confused with
- **pop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pop)
- **pot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pot)
- **pos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pos)
- **ppl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-ppl)
- **poo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-poo)
- **POW** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pow)
- **POV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pov)
- **pom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pom)
- **pox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pox)
- **pon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pon)
- **PSL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-psl)
- **post** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-post)
- **poor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-poor)
- **pull** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pull)
- **port** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-port)
- **pool** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pool)
- **porn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-porn)
- **pope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-pope)
- **poll** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-poll)
- **punk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/polk-vs-punk)

## Common misspellings (6)
`oplk`, `plok`, `pokl`, `polkk`, `pollk`, `ppolk`

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