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soc

/soʊʃ/noun

soc is spelled S-O-C: 3 letters. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, soc means “Sociology or social science” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of soc is socs.

How many letters and syllables are in soc?

Letters3: S-O-C
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
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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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is soc?

Soc appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 soc?

  • UK /səʊʃ/
  • US /soʊʃ/

As a noun (“A society (circle, club, interest group)”): /sɒk/, /sɑk/.

As a noun (“The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a…”): /sɒk/, /sɑk/.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-soc_(sh).wav, En-us-sock.ogg, En-au-soc.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with soc

Sounds like: sosh (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with soc?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as soc from its last stressed vowel (/oʊʃ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: cos.

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 soc

  • socs plural

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

What does soc mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangSociology or social science.

  2. 2

    slangUpper class youth.

  3. 3

    UKA society (circle, club, interest group).

    Are you part of any socs this year?

  4. 4

    UKThe lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

  5. 5

    UKobsoleteAn exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

noun

as Soc
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of soc (“upper class youth”).

noun

as SOC
  1. 1

    Initialism of system on a chip.

  2. 2

    Initialism of special operations command.

  3. 3

    Initialism of separation of concerns.

  4. 4

    Initialism of standard outcue.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of state of charge.

  6. 6

    Initialism of standard of care.

  7. 7

    Initialism of schedule of charges.

noun

as SoC
  1. 1

    Alternative form of SOC.

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

Where does soc come from?

Abbreviation of sociology and social.

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

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