spoke
/spoʊk/noun, verb
spoke is spelled S-P-O-K-E. The wrong spelling people search most is spoak: about 350 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Spoke is a noun meaning “A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim”. The plural of spoke is spokes.
How many letters and syllables are in spoke?
| Letters | 5: S-P-O-K-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, spoak, about 350 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 spoke?
Spoke is spelled S-P-O-K-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for spoke 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 spoke?
Spoke appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th 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 spoke?
- UK /spəʊk/
- US /spoʊk/
Spoke has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-spoke.wav, En-us-spoke.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with spoke
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: spake.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with spoke?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as spoke from its last stressed vowel (/oʊk/):
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 spoke
- spokes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- spoking participle, present
- spoked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spoke mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
- 2
A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
- 3
A rung of a ladder.
- 4
A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
- 5
One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
verb
- 1
To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
- 2
simple past of speak
- 3
archaicnonstandardpast participle of speak
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spoke in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rayon |
| German | Speiche , einspeichen |
| Portuguese | raio |
| Spanish | rayo, radio, varilla, ray , radiar |
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 spoke come from?
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).