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Is soc a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word soc is a Scrabble US word. The word soc is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is soc a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word soc is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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You can make 4 words from 'soc' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'soc'

COS 5SOC 5

2 letters words from 'soc'

OS 2SO 2

All 3 letters words made out of soc

soc osc sco cso ocs cos

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Definitions and meaning of soc

soc

Etymology 1

From sociology.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /səʊʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /soʊʃ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊʃ
  • Homophone: sosh

Noun

soc (countable and uncountable, plural socs)

  1. (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
  2. (slang, countable) Upper class youth.
Alternative forms
  • Soc

Etymology 2

From Middle English soke, sok, soc, from Old English sōcn, from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɒk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /sɑk/

Alternative forms

  • sock, soke

Noun

soc

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
  2. (Britain, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
  3. (Britain, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
Derived terms
  • soc and sac

Anagrams

  • 'cos, CSO, Cos, OCS, OCs, OSC, SCO, co's, cos, cos.

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsɔk/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

soc

  1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of sóc

Etymology 2

Compare soca (“trunk”).

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. stump

Etymology 3

Latin soccus (“slipper”). Compare Spanish zueco.

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. clog
    Synonym: esclop

Etymology 4

Noun

soc m or f (plural socs)

  1. souq

Further reading

  • “soc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • “soc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “soc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Chinese

Etymology

From English society.

Pronunciation

Noun

soc

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) university society

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare Middle Irish socc, Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout," from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔk/

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

  1. plowshare
  2. (butchery) Boston butt

Further reading

  • “soc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • Cos

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish socc (“pig’s snout”), from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (“pig”) (compare Welsh hwch), from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠɔk/

Noun

soc m (genitive singular soic, nominative plural soic)

  1. snout, muzzle (of an animal)
  2. nozzle
  3. the projecting end of something, such as:

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • “soc” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “soc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • “soc” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 666.
  • "soc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz (whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr), from Latin soccus.

Noun

soc m

  1. sock

Descendants

  • Middle High German: soc, socke
    • Alemannic German: Sockä
    • Central Franconian: Sock
    • German: Socke (see there for further descendants)
    • Vilamovian: zok

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sok/
  • Rhymes: -ok

Noun

soc m (plural soci)

  1. elder (plant)

Declension

Derived terms

  • socată

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (French) a nickname.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)