yoked
/joʊkt/
"yoked" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yoked” is uncommon English (frequency #64,844 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,844
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wearing a yoke.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yoked · yoked · English
yoked · rank #64,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,844
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yousafzai
Nearest frequency peer: Yousafzai (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “yoked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wooten
Wooten
35,161 corpus weight
- yoked
yoked
35,157 corpus weight
- Yousafzai
Yousafzai
35,156 corpus weight
- Zahn
Zahn
35,155 corpus weight
- Zaidi
Zaidi
35,154 corpus weight
- zakat
zakat
35,153 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yoked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yoked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /joʊkt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yoked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yoked is uncommon English at frequency #64,844 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /joʊkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yoked, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From yoke + -ed. The correct English form is yoked, spelled Y-O-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Wearing a yoke.
- 2Subjugated.
- 3Having large and well-defined muscles particularly at the neck and the trapezii (forming thus the “yoke“).
- 4Married.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yoked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The yoked oxen stood ready.
yoked workers
Etymology
From yoke + -ed.
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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