Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woken

/ˈwoʊ.kən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables: wo-ken
IPA: /ˈwoʊ.kən/

12

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

past participle of wake

verb

To make or become woke or woker.

Example Sentences

"The “wokening” industry swallowed Orr's latest incarnation—the new, improved Rory Rabineau—as a perfect antidote to the perceived poison of his uninsurable “mental instability.”"
"Which is why progressivism ain't no religion; it's a cult. Instead of the Ten Commandments, it's political correctness. Instead of any meaningful spiritual awakening, it's a performative woke'''ning."
"Instead of a grim reminder of reality in which the Black hero survives the ordeal only to be wrongfully dispatched by police—à la Night of the Living Dead—Get Out exudes the hope of an ever-wokening world."

Etymology

Morphologically woke + -n.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: woke

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈwoʊ.kən/
British English: /ˈwəʊ.kən/

Inflected Forms

wokens (present, singular) wokening (participle, present) wokened (participle, past) wokened (past)

Derived Forms

wokening unwoken

Rhymes With

broken spoken token outspoken unbroken unspoken michoacan loken misspoken kokan koken softspoken

Questions

How do you pronounce woken?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwoʊ.kən/.
What does woken mean?: past participle of wake
Where does woken come from?: Morphologically woke + -n.

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