poc
\pɔk\
The verdict
“poc” is uncommon French (frequency #59,541 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,541
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée servant à exprimer un bruit sec, un choc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poc · poc · French
poc · rank #59,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,541
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plissée
Nearest frequency peer: plissée (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « poc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plasturgie
plasturgie
40,463 corpus weight
- pleurons
pleurons
40,462 corpus weight
- plissée
plissée
40,461 corpus weight
- poc
poc
40,460 corpus weight
- poke
poke
40,459 corpus weight
- politisée
politisée
40,457 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \pɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poc is uncommon French at frequency #59,541 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \pɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée servant à exprimer un bruit sec, un choc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poc, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poc, spelled P-O-C.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée servant à exprimer un bruit sec, un choc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mère à Roger est du genre méticuleux. Faut que sa maison rutile. Alors elle cavale partout sans lever le cul de sa chaise, elle se cramponne des deux mains au siège et elles sautillent ensemble, la chaise et elle, poc poc poc.
Aveugle à cent pour cent. Sa frangine, une belle nana, mais bêcheuse, le conduit par les rues, et lui il tâte le bord du trottoir avec sa canne, poc poc poc.
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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