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POC

noun

POC is spelled P-O-C: 3 letters. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, POC means “Initialism of proof of concept” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of POC is POCs or PoCs.

How many letters and syllables are in POC?

Letters3: P-O-C
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th 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 POC?

POC appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 POC

  • POCs plural
  • PoCs plural

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

What does POC mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of proof of concept.

    PoC exploit

  2. 2

    Initialism of point of contact.

  3. 3

    Initialism of percentage of completion.

  4. 4

    Initialism of point of care.

  5. 5

    Initialism of port of call.

  6. 6

    Initialism of person of color or people of color.

    The organizers didn’t think to invite even a single POC to speak.

  7. 7

    slangvulgarInitialism of piece of crap.

noun

as PoC
  1. 1

    Alternative form of POC (“proof of concept; person of color; etc”).

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

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