sox
/sɑks/
"sox" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,101) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,101
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sock (footwear)
Corpus desk
Index EN-sox · sox · English
sox · rank #9,101 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,101
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smashed
Nearest frequency peer: smashed (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “sox”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- skiing
skiing
90,903 corpus weight
- slaughter
slaughter
90,902 corpus weight
- smashed
smashed
90,901 corpus weight
- sox
sox
90,900 corpus weight
- sperm
sperm
90,899 corpus weight
- spill
spill
90,898 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “sox” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “sox”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sox is neighbouring look-alikes ("SS", "SP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /sɑks/. Frequency #9,101 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Gloss: "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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