poke
\pɔk\
The verdict
“poke” is uncommon French (frequency #59,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,542
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pichenette, action de pousser avec un doigt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poke · poke · French
poke · rank #59,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,542
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poc
Nearest frequency peer: poc (-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 « poke »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pleurons
pleurons
40,462 corpus weight
- plissée
plissée
40,461 corpus weight
- poc
poc
40,460 corpus weight
- poke
poke
40,459 corpus weight
- politisée
politisée
40,457 corpus weight
- polynôme
polynôme
40,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poke » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poke |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poke » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poke is uncommon French at frequency #59,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
poke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poke, spelled P-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Pichenette, action de pousser avec un doigt.
- 2”Salut”, “hé !”… Moyen discret pour attirer l'attention.
- 3Jeu de poker.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] alors ils se taggent tous sur FB et ça s'envoie des pokes par le cul par paquets de 10 et tout le monde fait « han vazy Gatsby tu m'acceptes sur Facebook ??? ajoute-moi fdp !!!!
Quelques minutes plus tard, alors qu'il ouvrait la porte de la chambre 609, son téléphone bipa. Il avait reçu un poke.
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.
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