Which to use
“acre” and “acts” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,877
- “acre” frequency rank
- #2,276
- “acts” frequency rank
- 10153
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | acre | acts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres. | plural of act |
Where the eye mixes acre and acts
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. acre (/ˈeɪ.kə/) and acts (/ækts/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10153, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
acre is recorded at frequency rank #7,877, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈeɪ.kə/. acts is at rank #2,276, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ækts/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 10153, this pair ranks #493,710 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of acre vs acts
Shared letters: ac. Private to "acre": er. Private to "acts": st.
"acre" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "acts" · 4 letters · shape VCCC