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mock

/mɑk/noun, verb, adjective

mock is spelled M-O-C-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mock means “An imitation, usually of lesser quality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mock is mocks.

How many letters and syllables are in mock?

Letters4: M-O-C-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th 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 mock?

Mock appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 mock?

  • UK /mɒk/
  • US /mɑk/

Mock 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: En-us-mock.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with mock

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

moc vs mock0 B

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

What rhymes with mock?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mock 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 mock

  • mocks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • mocking participle, present
  • mocked participle, past

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

What does mock mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

  2. 2

    Mockery; the act of mocking.

  3. 3

    Ellipsis of mock examination.

    He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

  4. 4

    A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.

verb

  1. 1

    To mimic, to simulate.

  2. 2

    rareTo create an artistic representation of.

  3. 3

    To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.

  4. 4

    To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.

    The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!

  5. 5

    To create a mockup or prototype of.

adjective

  1. 1

    Imitation, not genuine; fake.

    mock leather

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

Mock in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchimitation, succédané (imitation), moquerie (act of mocking), examen blanc (practice exam), imiter (to mimic), moquer (to taunt)
GermanNachahmung, Imitation (imitation), Parodie, Veralberung (act of mocking), nachahmen (to mimic), Prototyp (a mockup, prototype)
Portugueseimitação (imitation), escárnio, motejo (act of mocking), simulado (practice exam), simular, imitar (to mimic)
Spanishburla (act of mocking), simulacro (practice exam), imitar, remedar (to mimic), burlarse de, fisgar (to taunt)

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 mock come from?

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”).

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

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