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Modoc

noun

Modoc is spelled M-O-D-O-C: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Modoc means “A member of a Native American tribe formerly living in California and Oregon, and now in Oklahoma as well” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Modoc is Modocs.

How many letters and syllables are in Modoc?

Letters5: M-O-D-O-C
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,980th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Modoc?

Modoc appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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).

Forms of Modoc

  • Modocs plural

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

What does Modoc mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A member of a Native American tribe formerly living in California and Oregon, and now in Oklahoma as well.

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

Where does Modoc come from?

From Klamath-Modoc moatokni (“southerner”).

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

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