rooks
/ɹʊks/
"rooks" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rooks” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,600
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of rook
Corpus desk
Index EN-rooks · rooks · English
rooks · rank #49,600 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH roadkill
Nearest frequency peer: roadkill (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rooks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ridiculousn…
ridiculousness
50,405 corpus weight
- roadkill
roadkill
50,403 corpus weight
- rooks
rooks
50,401 corpus weight
- roque
roque
50,399 corpus weight
- rostrum
rostrum
50,398 corpus weight
- Rothstein
Rothstein
50,397 corpus weight
What this shows “rooks” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rooks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹʊks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rooks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rooks (IPA /ɹʊks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,600 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of rook".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rooks, with forms such as "oroks", "rokos", and "roks". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ROS", "room", "root", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is rooks, spelled R-O-O-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of rook
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oroks
- rokos
- roks
- rookks
- rookss
- roosk
- rrooks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rooks - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rooks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).