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socket

sock·et/ˈsɑkɪt/noun, verb

socket is spelled S-O-C-K-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables (sock·et). It appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, socket means “An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of socket is sockets.

How many letters and syllables are in socket?

Letters6: S-O-C-K-E-T
Syllables2: sock·et
In writing3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 socket?

Socket appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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 socket?

  • UK /ˈsɒkɪt/
  • US /ˈsɑkɪt/

Socket has 2 syllables, split sock·et in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-socket.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with socket?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as socket from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkɪt/):

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 socket

  • sockets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • socketing participle, present
  • socketed participle, past

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

What does socket mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).

    Near-synonyms: jack, outlet, receptacle, wall socket

  2. 2

    A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.

  3. 3

    The socket head for a socket wrench.

  4. 4

    A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.

  5. 5

    The hollow of a candlestick.

  6. 6

    One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.

  7. 7

    One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.

  8. 8

    A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.

verb

  1. 1

    To place or fit in a socket.

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

How do you abbreviate socket?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of socket: sock.

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

Socket in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchprise, douille (1.1. electrical opening), orbite, cavité, capsule (1.2. hollow in a bone), socket (2. computing interprocess communication channel)
GermanSteckdose, Buchse, Fassung, Sockel (1.1. electrical opening), Höhle (1.2. hollow in a bone)
Portuguesetomada (1.1. electrical opening), cavidade (1.2. hollow in a bone), soquete, socket (2. computing interprocess communication channel)
Spanishenchufe, tomacorriente, toma (1.1. electrical opening), glena (1.2. hollow in a bone), zócalo (2. computing interprocess communication channel), dado (1.3. head of a socket wrench)

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 socket come from?

From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout", from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

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

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