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rimrock

noun, verb

rimrock is spelled R-I-M-R-O-C-K: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rimrock means “An outcrop of hard rock, often in the form of a cliff at the edge of a plateau, that forms the margin of a gravel deposit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rimrock is rimrocks.

How many letters and syllables are in rimrock?

Letters7: R-I-M-R-O-C-K
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th 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 rimrock?

Rimrock appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 rimrock

  • rimrocks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • rimrocking participle, present
  • rimrocked participle, past

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

What does rimrock mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An outcrop of hard rock, often in the form of a cliff at the edge of a plateau, that forms the margin of a gravel deposit

verb

  1. 1

    To drive (animals) over a cliff edge.

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

Where does rimrock come from?

From rim + rock.

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

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