rock
/ɹɔk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The face of the cliff is solid rock."
- "Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge."
- "This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands."
- "The ship crashed on the rocks."
- "This enormous, 1.7 million acre property offers hikes to spectacular formations like Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden and the Wahweap Hoodoos, slender, ghostly rocks that can reach several stories high."
- "Some fool has thrown a rock through my window."
Etymology
Etymology tree Medieval Latin roccabor.? Old English *rocc Early Medieval Latin rocca Anglo-Norman roquebor. Middle English rokke English rock Inherited from Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”). One suggestion is that it derives from Vulgar Latin *rupica, from rupes (compare rupico).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɔk/
- British English: /ɹɒk/
Usage
- Uncountable
- Countable
- British usage
- Colloquial
- American usage
- Slang
- Derogatory
- Informal
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
abyssal rock
almond rocks
alum rock
Ayers Rock
azoic rock
Badgerin Rock
Beaver Rock
between a rock and a hard place