Tok
"tok" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tok” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,061) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,061
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Khmer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tok · Tok · English
Tok · rank #33,061 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,061
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH torrential
Nearest frequency peer: torrential (+1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Tok”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tibia
tibia
66,944 corpus weight
- titular
titular
66,942 corpus weight
- Tok
Tok
66,940 corpus weight
- torrential
torrential
66,939 corpus weight
- trad
trad
66,938 corpus weight
- trashing
trashing
66,937 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Tok” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Tok |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tok” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tok is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "TX", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #33,061 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Gloss: "A surname from Khmer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tok in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "TX", "Tu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Khmer តក់ (tɑk). The correct English form is Tok, spelled T-O-K.
Definition
- 1A surname from Khmer.
Etymology
From Khmer តក់ (tɑk).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "Tok" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "TV". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #33,061 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.