# mockery

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɒkəɹi/ · frequency rank #19,907

## Definitions
1. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
2. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
3. Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
4. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

## Etymology
From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek μωκός (mōkós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (makr, “scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock + -ery.

## Easily confused with
- **monkey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mockery-vs-monkey)
- **mickey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mickey-vs-mockery)
- **Mackey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mackey-vs-mockery)

## Common misspellings (11)
`mcokery`, `mmockery`, `mocckery`, `mocekry`, `mockerry`, `mockeryy`, `mockeyr`, `mockkery`, `mockrey`, `mokcery`, `omckery`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mockery