bock
\bɔk\
The verdict
“bock” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,145. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,145
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verre à bière de la capacité d’un quart de litre environ dont on se sert dans les brasseries et les cafés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bock · bock · French
bock · rank #33,145 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,145
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boches
Nearest frequency peer: boches (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bock »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Biron
Biron
66,859 corpus weight
- boches
boches
66,857 corpus weight
- bock
bock
66,856 corpus weight
- boisées
boisées
66,855 corpus weight
- bonhommes
bonhommes
66,854 corpus weight
- bordées
bordées
66,853 corpus weight
What this shows « bock » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bock |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bock »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bock (IPA \bɔk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,145 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bock, with forms such as "bbock", "bcok", and "bocck". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bon", "box", "boy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bock, spelled B-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1Verre à bière de la capacité d’un quart de litre environ dont on se sert dans les brasseries et les cafés.
- 2Son contenu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne voyage que dans les pays à bière, et je juge les villes à la capacité des chopes. Je tente l’épreuve dès la sortie de la gare : si le verre à bière est réduit à la taille ridicule du bock moderne, je reprends mon bagage. La ville est jugée : c’est une ville mesquine, plate, étroite, tout à fait anti-artistique.
En France, dans un café ou un restaurant, quand on entend parler allemand, le garçon louche en apportant son bock, les voisins grimacent et modèrent leurs épanchements... c'est la vision de l'espion.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbock
- bcok
- bocck
- bockk
- bokc
- obck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bock - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bock", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).