racks
/ɹæks/noun, verb
racks is a noun meaning “publication, distribution (of a magazine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-C-K-S and has one syllable, and it appears 2.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does racks mean?
noun
- 1
plural of rack
- 2
publication, distribution (of a magazine)
The issue already hit the racks. We can't edit it.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of rack
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce racks?
- US /ɹæks/
Racks has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-racks.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is racks?
Racks appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with racks
Sounds like: rax (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).