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chock

/t͡ʃɑk/noun, verb, adverb, interjection

chock is spelled C-H-O-C-K: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “chalk vs chock” about 20 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, chock means “Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chock is chocks.

How many letters and syllables are in chock?

Letters5: C-H-O-C-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 34,504th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is chock?

Chock appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th 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).

How do you pronounce chock?

  • UK /tʃɒk/
  • US /t͡ʃɑk/

Chock 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chock.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with chock

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

chalk vs chock20 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with chock?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chock from its last stressed vowel (/ɑk/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of chock

  • chocks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • chocking participle, present
  • chocked participle, past

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

What does chock mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

  2. 2

    Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.

  3. 3

    USAn illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site.

  4. 4

    obsoleteAn encounter.

verb

  1. 1

    To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo fill up, as a cavity.

  3. 3

    To insert a line in a chock.

  4. 4

    To make a dull sound.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo encounter.

adverb

  1. 1

    Entirely; quite.

interjection

  1. 1

    Representing a dull sound.

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

Chock in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcoinceur (object used as a wedge or filler), remplissage, tin (nautical: fitting or fixture used to restrict…), carrément, en plein (Translations)
GermanRadvorleger (object used as a wedge or filler)
Portuguesecalço (object used as a wedge or filler)
Spanishcalzo, calza, calce, alza (object used as a wedge or filler), engalgar (to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block)

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 chock come from?

From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself a metathetic borrowing of Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stick, stock, piece of wood”). Doublet of stock.

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

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