Synonyms for sock

Most common

wind sleeve · wind cone · wind sock · drogue · shoe · comedy mask · mitten · sockie

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A knitted or woven covering for the foot.

2. v. 1

   To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.

Related words

Word family

sockless sockmaster

Phrases

air sock sock hat wind sock no-show sock sock puppet sock and buskin wank sock compression sock

Is a kind of

footwear legwear

Forms

Plural

socks → drogues, shoes, mittens, sockies…

Past participle

socked
e.g. socked → bopped, bashed, bonked, whopped…

Example sentences

• shoe Excuse me, but where is the men's shoe department?

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

bop¹

4 letters

belt¹, shoe¹, bash¹, bonk¹, whop, whap, zock

6 letters

mitten², drogue¹, sockie

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (mitten² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

chaussette

Italiano

calza

Español

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Deutsch

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