mook

\muk\

/\muk\/ noun

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The verdict

“mook” is uncommon French (frequency #89,943 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,943
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrage à mi-chemin dans son format entre un magazine et un livre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mook · mook · French

mook · rank #89,943 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,943
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mortifié

Nearest frequency peer: mortifié (+1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « mook »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mook » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mook
PropertyValue
Headwordmook
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\muk\
Letters4
Frequency rank#89,943
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mook » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mooktombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « mortifié » (#89,944), « monolithiques » (#89,941), « Moto3 » (#89,945). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mook » est au #89,943. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mook is uncommon French at frequency #89,943 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \muk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ouvrage à mi-chemin dans son format entre un magazine et un livre.".

mook doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mook, spelled M-O-O-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ouvrage à mi-chemin dans son format entre un magazine et un livre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Rapide définition pour commencer : le mook est un objet culturel boboïssime par excellence.
  2. Un mook qui revient aussi bien sur le parcours de l’artiste que sur ses inspirations et les thèmes récurrents qu’il glisse dans ses films.

Synonyms

livre-magazine

This word in other languages

mook(English)

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mook"?
"mook" is spelled M-O-O-K. The IPA pronunciation is \muk\.
What does "mook" mean?
As a noun, "mook" means: Ouvrage à mi-chemin dans son format entre un magazine et un livre.
How do you pronounce "mook"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mook" is \muk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mook" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mook", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

moko#89,939munk#89,949moal#89,935miri#89,930

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list