stoke

\stəʊk\

/\stəʊk\/ verb

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The verdict

“stoke” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,293
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chauffer en nourrissant un feu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stoke · stoke · French

stoke · rank #35,293 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,293
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH stimulé

Nearest frequency peer: stimulé (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « stoke »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « stoke » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

stoke vs stop
60% similar
stoke vs style
60% similar
stoke vs story
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for stoke
PropertyValue
Headwordstoke
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\stəʊk\
Letters5
Frequency rank#35,293
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stoke »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).stokese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « stimulé » (#35,292), « stoppée » (#35,294), « Spartiates » (#35,291). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stoke » est au #35,293. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around stoke (IPA \stəʊk\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,293 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chauffer en nourrissant un feu.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for stoke, with forms such as "sotke", "sstoke", and "stkoe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stop", "style", "story", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stoke, spelled S-T-O-K-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chauffer en nourrissant un feu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Leaks suggest that in January 2023 a directorate in the Kremlin drew up plans to plant intelligence agents in Baltic environmental networks and stoke fears of an ecological catastrophe through Russia's array of state propaganda outlets.

Synonyms

heatwarm up

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sotke
  • sstoke
  • stkoe
  • stoek
  • stokke
  • sttoke
  • tsoke

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stoke - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

sotke2sstoke1stkoe2stoek2stokke1sttoke1tsoke2
Edit distance from "stoke"

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 "stoke"?
"stoke" is spelled S-T-O-K-E. The IPA pronunciation is \stəʊk\.
What does "stoke" mean?
As a verb, "stoke" means: Chauffer en nourrissant un feu.
What words are commonly confused with "stoke"?
"stoke" is commonly confused with "stop", "style", "story". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stoke"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stoke" is \stəʊk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stoke" come from?
"stoke" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

slips#35,279shark#35,275scans#35,269rogne#35,257

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Robben7 variantsrince7 variantsYates7 variantsécope7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list