academe
/ˈæk.ə.diːm/
"academe" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“academe” is an uncommon English word, ranked #82,019 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #82,019
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The garden in Athens where the academics met.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | academe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæk.ə.diːm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “academe” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for academe is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈæk.ə.diːm/. Corpus data places it at rank #82,019 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for academe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin academia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía); Doublet of academia, academy, and Akademeia. Academe (frequently capitalized) is a poetic name for the garden or grove near ancient Athens where Plato taught, supposedly named for its former o… The correct English form is academe, spelled A-C-A-D-E-M-E.
Definition
- 1The garden in Athens where the academics met.
- 2An academy; a place of learning.
- 3The scholarly life, environment, or community.
- 4A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.
Etymology
From New Latin academia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía); Doublet of academia, academy, and Akademeia. Academe (frequently capitalized) is a poetic name for the garden or grove near ancient Athens where Plato taught, supposedly named for its former owner, the hero Ἀκάδημος (Akademos; Ἑκάδημος, Hekademos).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “academe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-C-A-D-E-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.