pock·et/ˈpɑ.kɪt/noun, verb, adjective
pocket is spelled P-O-C-K-E-T, 2 syllables: pock·et. The wrong spelling people search most is poket: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. Pocket is a noun meaning “A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items”. The plural of pocket is pockets.
How many letters and syllables are in pocket?
| Letters | 6: P-O-C-K-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: pock·et |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, poket, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell pocket?
Pocket is spelled P-O-C-K-E-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 67 of the searches for pocket in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is pocket?
Pocket appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,114th 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 pocket?
- UK /ˈpɒk.ɪt/
- US /ˈpɑ.kɪt/
- /ˈpɑ.kət/
Pocket has 2 syllables, split pock·et in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-pocket.ogg, En-au-pocket.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with pocket?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pocket from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkɪt/):
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 pocket
- pockets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- pocketing participle, present
- pocketting participle, present, rare
- pocketed participle, past
- pocketted participle, past, rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pocket mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- 2
A person's financial resources.
I paid for it out of my own pocket.
- 3
An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- 4
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
- 5
AustraliaAn area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- 6
The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- 7
The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
For many years, the popular belief among NFL analysts was that the success of an NFL team comes with a quarterback who can stand tall in the pocket and deliver the ball downfield. Members of the elite group of active quarterbacks, Peyton Ma
- 8
An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
verb
- 1
To put (something) into a pocket.
- 2
To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- 3
informalTo take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
- 4
datedinformalTo put up with; to bear without complaint.
adjective
- 1
Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
a pocket dictionary
- 2
Smaller or more compact than usual.
pocket battleship
- 3
Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
a pocket pair of kings
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate pocket?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of pocket: P.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pocket in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | poche , empocher , de poche |
| German | Tasche, Sack , einstecken , Loch , Blase |
| Portuguese | bolso, algibeira , de bolso , caçapa , bolsão , encaçapar |
| Spanish | bolsillo, bolsa, faltriquera, faldriquera, bolchaca, bolsico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pocket come from?
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).