Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fok

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English

Syllables
fok
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of feeling of knowing (“the sense that one has the answer to a question before one retrieves it from memory; described in the psychological experiments of Lynne M. Reder”).

name

A surname.

name

A surname.

Etymology

* As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Focke, itself from Volk. * As a Cantonese surname, from Cantonese 霍 (fok3).

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Questions

What does fok mean?
Initialism of fill or kill.
Where does fok come from?
It is traced to Dutch.

How to pronounce fok

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