soc

\sɔk\

/\sɔk\/ noun

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The verdict

“soc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,598) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#18,598
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Large pièce de fer triangulaire et tranchante qui fait partie d’une charrue, et qui sert à fendre et à renverser la terre d’un champ qu’on laboure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soc · soc · French

soc · rank #18,598 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,598
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH slalom

Nearest frequency peer: slalom (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « soc »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « soc » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

soc vs st
33% similar
soc vs su
33% similar
soc vs ss
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for soc
PropertyValue
Headwordsoc
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔk\
Letters3
Frequency rank#18,598
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « soc »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).socse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « slalom » (#18,597), « sound » (#18,599), « singularité » (#18,596). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soc » est au #18,598. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for soc is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɔk\. Frequency #18,598 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No misspelling variants are generated for soc in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "ss", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soc, spelled S-O-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Large pièce de fer triangulaire et tranchante qui fait partie d’une charrue, et qui sert à fendre et à renverser la terre d’un champ qu’on laboure.
  2. 2
    Partie supérieure de l’épaule qui reste après avoir enlevé l’épaule picnic.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how soc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce soc est fort petit, et le coutre qui ne fait qu’écorcher la terre, pour ainsi dire ; à mesure que les sillons sont tirés, les laboureurs rompent les mottes avec de grosses maillottes de bois, […].
  2. Ces médailles furent découvertes dans le champ dit de la Guillelmine, près de Limoise, dans un pot de terre vernie et qui fut brisé par le soc de la charrue qui l'avait heurté; […].

This word in other languages

ploughshare(English)reja(Español)Pflugschar(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soc"?
"soc" is spelled S-O-C. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔk\.
What does "soc" mean?
As a noun, "soc" means: Large pièce de fer triangulaire et tranchante qui fait partie d’une charrue, et qui sert à fendre et à renverser la terre d’un champ qu’on laboure.
What words are commonly confused with "soc"?
"soc" is commonly confused with "st", "su", "ss". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soc"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soc" is \sɔk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soc" come from?
"soc" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "soc", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pay#18,553nou#18,545liv#18,524CEO#18,679

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list