spoke
/spoʊk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
noun
One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
verb
simple past of speak
Example Sentences
- "The wheels were at first copies of a light hand-cart wheel, the wood spokes were brought together by tapering the spoke ends and wedging them together at the nave or hub and inserting the other ends in slots in the felloe or wood rim."
- "Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided."
- "Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe,[…]"
- "I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid."
Etymology
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /spoʊk/
- British English: /spəʊk/