rocks
/ɹɑks/noun, verb
rocks is spelled R-O-C-K-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rocks means “Money” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rocks?
| Letters | 5: R-O-C-K-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 rocks?
Rocks appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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 rocks?
- /ɹɒks/
- US /ɹɑks/
- Australia [ɹʷɔks]
Rocks 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). Recordings: En-us-rocks.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with rocks
Also written: rox.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with rocks?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rocks from its last stressed vowel (/ɑks/):
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).
What does rocks mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangMoney.
- 2
slangvulgarTesticles.
- 3
slangCrack cocaine.
You seem a bit out of it lately, have you been smoking rocks again?
- 4
plural of rock
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of rock
She rocks the cradle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).