nork
/nɔɹk/noun
nork is spelled N-O-R-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nork means “A woman's breast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nork is norks.
How many letters and syllables are in nork?
| Letters | 4: N-O-R-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is nork?
Nork appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 nork?
- UK /nɔːk/
- US /nɔɹk/
- Australia /noːk/
Nork 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-au-nork.ogg, En-au-Nork.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nork?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nork from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹk/):
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 nork
- norks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nork mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA woman's breast.
noun
- 1
derogatoryslangA North Korean.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nork come from?
Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).