socca
\so.ka\
The verdict
“socca” is uncommon French (frequency #99,651 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,651
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande et fine galette de couleur jaune orangé, spécialité culinaire à base de farine de pois chiche, consommée par exemple à Menton et à Nice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-socca · socca · French
socca · rank #99,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,651
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH socs
Nearest frequency peer: socs (+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 « socca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- skicross
skicross
354 corpus weight
- slaloms
slaloms
353 corpus weight
- Smit
Smit
352 corpus weight
- socca
socca
350 corpus weight
- socs
socs
349 corpus weight
- soldant
soldant
347 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « socca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | socca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « socca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
socca is uncommon French at frequency #99,651 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grande et fine galette de couleur jaune orangé, spécialité culinaire à base de farine de pois chiche, consommée par exemple à Menton et à Nice.".
No misspelling variants are generated for socca in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 socca, spelled S-O-C-C-A.
Definition
- 1Grande et fine galette de couleur jaune orangé, spécialité culinaire à base de farine de pois chiche, consommée par exemple à Menton et à Nice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how socca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux hommes qui approchaient de la quarantaine du même pas, se connaissaient depuis l’époque où, gamins, ils venaient dépenser les quelques sous qu’ils possédaient à acheter des portions de « socca » bien chaude ou un bout de « peissaladière » aux marchandes ambulantes.
Il continua sa marche, pénétrant dans la vieille ville, et entra dans un petit restaurant qui servait de la socca, un plat traditionnel qu'il appréciait.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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