pock

Other forms of pock

plural

pocks·

past tense

pocked·

present participle

pocking·

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 pock

What does pock mean?

pock means "a pustule in an eruptive disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pock?

pock has 1 syllable: pock. In IPA it is /ˈpɑk/.

What is another word for pock?

Close synonyms include scar, mark, pit. 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 pock a common word?

pock 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.