roc
/ɹɒk/noun
roc is spelled R-O-C: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, roc means “An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of roc is rocs.
How many letters and syllables are in roc?
| Letters | 3: R-O-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
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 roc?
Roc appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th 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 roc?
- /ɹɒk/
Roc 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).
Words people confuse with roc
Sounds like: rock (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: rock, rok, ruc, ruck, rukh.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with roc?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as roc.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cor, orc, cro.
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 roc
- rocs plural
- roche
- rok
- ruc
- rukh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does roc mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
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- 2
colloquialRocuronium.
noun
- 1
Initialism of region of convergence.
- 2
Initialism of receiver operating characteristic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Roc in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Rokh, Roch |
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 roc come from?
From Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Classical Persian رُخ (rux).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).