wok
\wɔk\
The verdict
“wok” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,603) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,603
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ustensile de cuisson de forme hémisphérique, comparable à, mais plus profond qu'une grande poêle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wok · wok · French
wok · rank #41,603 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,603
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH wil
Nearest frequency peer: wil (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « wok »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Wagram
Wagram
58,401 corpus weight
- Wembley
Wembley
58,400 corpus weight
- wil
wil
58,399 corpus weight
- wok
wok
58,398 corpus weight
- Yassine
Yassine
58,397 corpus weight
- yiddish
yiddish
58,396 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « wok » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wok |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « wok »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wok is neighbouring look-alikes ("wu", "wp", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \wɔk\. Frequency #41,603 among 549 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Ustensile de cuisson de forme hémisphérique, comparable à, mais plus profond qu'une grande poêle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for wok in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wu", "wp", "wow", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is wok, spelled W-O-K.
Definition
- 1Ustensile de cuisson de forme hémisphérique, comparable à, mais plus profond qu'une grande poêle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aime mieux faire revenir les légumes dans le wok.
Ajouter à la sauce le riz et les nouilles aux œufs préalablement cuits et secouer énergiquement. Toute la clé de la recette tient à la secousse du wok - constamment projetés et agités, le riz et les nouilles ne collent pas, tandis que l’huile et les saveurs se répartissent uniformément sur les ingrédients.
This word in other languages
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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