nock

Other forms of nock

past tense

nocked·

present participle

nocking·

third person

nocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nock

What does nock mean?

nock means "make small marks into the surface of".

How many syllables are in nock?

nock has 1 syllable: nock. In IPA it is /ˈnɑk/.

What is another word for nock?

Close synonyms include score, mark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nock a common word?

nock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nock?

2 words rhyme with nock. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.