soc
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,598
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
soc is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \sɔk\. Often confused with st and su.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for soc is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔk\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,598 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for soc in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is soc, spelled S-O-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Large 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.
- 2Partie supérieure de l’épaule qui reste après avoir enlevé l’épaule picnic.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #18,598 in French
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