sox
/sɑks/noun
sox is spelled S-O-X: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sox means “plural of sock (footwear)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sox?
| Letters | 3: S-O-X |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 sox?
Sox appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 sox?
- US /sɑks/
Sox has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-sox.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sox?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sox from its last stressed vowel (/ɑks/):
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).
What does sox mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalplural of sock (footwear)
noun
- 1
Initialism of solid oxygen.
adjective
- 1
Relating to the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).