sox
/sɑks/
"sox" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sox” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #9,101 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,101
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of sock (footwear)
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 | sox |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɑks/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sox” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for sox is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɑks/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,101 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of sock (footwear)".
sox has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SS", "SP", "su", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is sox, spelled S-O-X.
Definition
- 1plural of sock (footwear)
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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Using “sox”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-O-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɑks/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “SS” - see the side-by-side comparison. sox vs SS
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.