English homophones
roc/rock
"rock" (#1,002 written frequency) beats "roc" (#19,439) in this 2-word /ɹɒk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ɹɒk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "rock" leads at #1,002, with "roc" trailing at #19,439.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "roc" then splits - "roc" (3 letters) vs "rock" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across roc, rock: cor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
roc
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory cor · no private letters vs siblings
rock
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ckor · private k
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "roc" when you mean: An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
- Write "rock" when you mean: A formation of minerals, specifically:
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- rock ← orck · rcok · rocck · rockk · rokc · rrock
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (roc, rock). Here's where to go from here.
- "rock" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,002 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: wrote · rote. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "roc, rock" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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