sock
[zɔk]
The verdict
“sock” is uncommon German (frequency #89,584 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,584
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs socken
Corpus desk
Index DE-sock · sock · German
sock · rank #89,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,584
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH smiles
Nearest frequency peer: smiles (-2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „sock“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- singender
singender
10,423 corpus weight
- sinnieren
sinnieren
10,422 corpus weight
- Skeletts
Skeletts
10,421 corpus weight
- smiles
smiles
10,419 corpus weight
- sock
sock
10,417 corpus weight
- sonderpädag…
sonderpädagogischen
10,412 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sock“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [zɔk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sock“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sock is uncommon German at frequency #89,584 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [zɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs socken".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sock, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is sock, spelled S-O-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs socken
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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