woke
\wok\
The verdict
“woke” is uncommon French (frequency #60,481 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,481
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui relève du wokisme, mot utilisé pour stigmatiser une vision radicale de la justice sociale et de la défense des minorités en la présentant comme opposée à l’universalisme républicain et dénuée d...
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Index FR-woke · woke · French
woke · rank #60,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,481
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wissembourg
Nearest frequency peer: Wissembourg (-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 « woke »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- whistle
whistle
39,524 corpus weight
- wicked
wicked
39,523 corpus weight
- Wissembourg
Wissembourg
39,521 corpus weight
- woke
woke
39,520 corpus weight
- xiang
xiang
39,518 corpus weight
- Yaël
Yaël
39,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « woke » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | woke |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \wok\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « woke » en français
Rare enough to double-check
woke is uncommon French at frequency #60,481 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \wok\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for woke in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is woke, spelled W-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Qui relève du wokisme, mot utilisé pour stigmatiser une vision radicale de la justice sociale et de la défense des minorités en la présentant comme opposée à l’universalisme républicain et dénuée de rationalité.
- 2Qui relève de la gauche politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how woke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même la famille royale britannique serait désormais woke. C’est du moins ce qu’affirmait le magazine London Review of Books après les récentes fiançailles du prince Harry avec l’actrice métisse Meghan Markle, dont les positions anti-Donald Trump sont bien connues.
Si vous êtes dans le militantisme, vous en voulez pas si vous dites un truc de travers. Le militant parfait n’existe pas, et on peut pas être “woke” dans tous les aspects de sa vie, faites votre ptit bonhomme de chemin trankil et accordez vous une marge d'erreur, vs êtes humains
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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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