pock
/pɒk/
"pock" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pock” is uncommon English (frequency #76,223 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,223
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pock · pock · English
pock · rank #76,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,223
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH PMD
Nearest frequency peer: PMD (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “pock”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pleat
pleat
23,782 corpus weight
- PMD
PMD
23,780 corpus weight
- pock
pock
23,778 corpus weight
- podiatry
podiatry
23,776 corpus weight
- Pokhara
Pokhara
23,775 corpus weight
- polytheistic
polytheistic
23,772 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pock” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɒk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pock” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pock is uncommon English at frequency #76,223 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɒk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pock has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”),… The correct English form is pock, spelled P-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
- 2Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
Etymology
From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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