# rocky

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈɹɒki/ · frequency rank #5,543

## Definitions
1. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
2. Like a rock; rigid, solid.
3. Having a habitat around or on rocks.
4. Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.

## Etymology
From Middle English rokki, rokky (“rocky”), from rok, rokke (“rock; a rock or stone; large rock by a coast or in the sea; rocky outcrop on a mountain, cliff; castle, citadel, stronghold”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Rok, rokke are derived from:
* Old English *rocc (“rock”); and
* Anglo-Norman roc, roce, roque, and Old French roce, roke, roque, variants of roche (“rock”);
both from Medieval Latin roca, rocca; further etymology uncertain, possibly of Celtic origin. The English word is analysable as rock + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).

## Easily confused with
- **Roy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-roy)
- **Rory** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-rory)
- **rosy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-rosy)
- **Roxy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-roxy)
- **rook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-rook)
- **ruck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-ruck)
- **rowdy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-rowdy)
- **Ronny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-ronny)
- **roddy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-roddy)
- **roomy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-roomy)
- **rooks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocky-vs-rooks)
- **roc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/roc-vs-rocky)
- **rock** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rock-vs-rocky)
- **rick** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rick-vs-rocky)
- **rack** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rack-vs-rocky)
- **racy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/racy-vs-rocky)
- **rocks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rocks-vs-rocky)
- **risky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/risky-vs-rocky)
- **Ricky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ricky-vs-rocky)
- **racks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/racks-vs-rocky)

## Common misspellings (8)
`orcky`, `rcoky`, `roccky`, `rockky`, `rockyy`, `rocyk`, `rokcy`, `rrocky`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rocky