The Soko is an unpaved square surrounded with booths, outside the walls, where on Thursdays and Sundays, as in Spain, the market is held.
M. Thomas, Scamper through Spain & Tangier xii. 232
1903
Toledo—? She is at least faithful to the dead past... So she retains her old Soko, and will have naught to do with the correct Plaza de la Constitucion.
A. F. Calvert, Impressions of Spain 96
1921
Tangier..cosmopolitan enough as it seems to be to any one who ambles through the little zoco, has been administratively mismanaged.
Chambers's Journal December 817/2
1924
The minaret of the new mosque overlooking the big zoco cuts through the blue.
Chambers's Journal September 689/2
1965
The Gobierno resembled the zoco of a North African town except that the jewellery boxes, bundles of clothing,..and whimpering children were not for sale.
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
zoco typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zoco is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zoco, n., 1890–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1890
0.0004
1900
0.0005
1910
0.0006
1920
0.0006
1930
0.0011
1940
0.0014
1950
0.0015
1960
0.0016
1970
0.0017
1980
0.0018
1990
0.0019
2000
0.0017
2010
0.0016
zoco, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.