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roc

/ɹɒk/noun

roc is a noun meaning “An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-C and has one syllable, and it appears 2.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of roc is rocs.

What does roc mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.

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  2. 2

    colloquialRocuronium.

noun

as ROC
  1. 1

    Initialism of region of convergence.

  2. 2

    Initialism of receiver operating characteristic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce roc?

  • /ɹɒk/

Roc has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of roc

  • rocs plural
  • roche
  • rok
  • ruc
  • rukh

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is roc?

Roc appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with roc

Sounds like: rock (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: rock, rok, ruc, ruck, rukh.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Roc in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend:

LanguageWords
GermanRokh, Roch

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does roc come from?

From Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Classical Persian رُخ (rux).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).