Sok
"sok" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sok” is uncommon English (frequency #67,845 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,845
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Khmer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sok · Sok · English
Sok · rank #67,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,845
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH songstress
Nearest frequency peer: songstress (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Sok”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- smallholder
smallholder
32,162 corpus weight
- smarting
smarting
32,161 corpus weight
- smidgen
smidgen
32,160 corpus weight
- Sok
Sok
32,156 corpus weight
- songstress
songstress
32,154 corpus weight
- sorter
sorter
32,153 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sok” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sok |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sok” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sok is uncommon English at frequency #67,845 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Khmer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Sok, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Khmer សុខ (sok). The correct English form is Sok, spelled S-O-K.
Definition
- 1A surname from Khmer.
Etymology
From Khmer សុខ (sok).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).