smock
/smɒk/
"smock" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smock” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,052
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smock · smock · English
smock · rank #49,052 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,052
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smudged
Nearest frequency peer: smudged (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “smock”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- SIDS
SIDS
50,953 corpus weight
- sifted
sifted
50,952 corpus weight
- skydive
skydive
50,951 corpus weight
- smock
smock
50,949 corpus weight
- smudged
smudged
50,948 corpus weight
- SNA
SNA
50,947 corpus weight
What this shows “smock” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /smɒk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “smock”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around smock (IPA /smɒk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,052 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for smock, with forms such as "msock", "smcok", and "smmock". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suck", "soak", "sock", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”). Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to,… The correct English form is smock, spelled S-M-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
- 2A blouse; a smock frock.
- 3A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale Before the folk herself stripped she, And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
Etymology
From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”). Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msock
- smcok
- smmock
- smocck
- smockk
- smokc
- somck
- ssmock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smock - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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