sook
/suːk/verb, noun, interjection
sook is spelled S-O-O-K: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, sook means “Alternative spelling of suck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sook?
| Letters | 4: S-O-O-K |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sook?
Sook appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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 sook?
- /suːk/
- /sʊk/
- /sʉk/
- /suk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sook.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sook
Also written: suck.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sook?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sook.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: soko.
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 sook
- sooks present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- sooking participle, present
- sooked participle, past
- suck
- suke
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sook mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
Alternative spelling of suck.
noun
- 1
ScotlandrareFamiliar name for a calf.
- 2
USFamiliar name for a cow.
- 3
AustraliaA poddy calf.
- 4
AustraliaderogatoryslangA crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
Don't be such a sook.
- 5
AustraliaslangA sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
- 6
USA mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
- 7
Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).
interjection
- 1
ScotlandA call for calves.
Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie, Sook calf, sook calf! […]
- 2
USA call for cattle.
- 3
A call for cattle or sheep.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sook come from?
English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).