shook
\ˈʃʊk\
The verdict
“shook” is uncommon French (frequency #89,169 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,169
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de shake.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shook · shook · French
shook · rank #89,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,169
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH shed
Nearest frequency peer: shed (-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 « shook »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Shalimar
Shalimar
10,835 corpus weight
- Shanxi
Shanxi
10,834 corpus weight
- shed
shed
10,833 corpus weight
- shook
shook
10,832 corpus weight
- shoulder
shoulder
10,831 corpus weight
- shuriken
shuriken
10,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « shook » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈʃʊk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shook » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shook is uncommon French at frequency #89,169 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈʃʊk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit de shake.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shook, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is shook, spelled S-H-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de shake.
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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