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woke

Portuguese, noun/uˈo(w).ki/

woke is spelled W-O-K-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 94,578th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Woke is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a social justice warrior; a wokie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does woke mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    derogatoryfemininemasculinewoke (promoting cancel culture or virtue signaling)

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryfemininemasculinea social justice warrior; a wokie

noun

  1. 1

    derogatorymasculinewoke (successor ideology)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of woke

  • wokes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce woke?

  • Brazil /uˈo(w).ki/
  • Brazil [uˈo(ʊ̯).ki]
  • Brazil /ˈwo(w).ki/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to woke

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is woke in Portuguese?

woke appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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