cocks
/kɒks/
"cocks" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cocks” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,780
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cock
Corpus desk
Index EN-cocks · cocks · English
cocks · rank #15,780 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,780
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Clemson
Nearest frequency peer: Clemson (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cocks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cleaners
cleaners
84,224 corpus weight
- cleanup
cleanup
84,223 corpus weight
- Clemson
Clemson
84,222 corpus weight
- cocks
cocks
84,221 corpus weight
- compose
compose
84,220 corpus weight
- concise
concise
84,219 corpus weight
What this shows “cocks” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɒks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cocks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cocks (IPA /kɒks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,780 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of cock".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cocks, with forms such as "ccocks", "ccoks", and "coccks". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cos", "cook", "cops", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cocks, spelled C-O-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cock
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cocks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If Mrs. Dyott was fond of ancient French furniture, and distinctly difficult about it, her inmates could be fond—with whatever critical cocks of charming dark-braided heads over slender sloping shoulders—of modern French authors.
The guests run hands over twitching boys, suck their cocks, hang on their backs like vampires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccocks
- ccoks
- coccks
- cockks
- cockss
- cocsk
- cokcs
- occks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cocks - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cocks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).