How to spell rock

hear itrock/rɑk/nounSounds

What it means: A solid piece of stone.

In a sentence: The rock skipped across the pond.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rok or roc.

Same family: rocking, rocked, rocker, rocking-chair, rocking-motion. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "rock" comes from an Old Norse word "rykkja," meaning to pull or jerk, which shifted in English to the idea of moving something back and forth. Over time, the word also gave rise to the noun "rocking chair," a chair made specifically to move with this gentle motion.

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