academic year
/ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk jɪə/
"academic-year" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“academic year” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The annual period during which a student attends school, college or university.
Corpus desk
Index EN-academic-year · academic year · English
academic year · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | academic year |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk jɪə/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “academic year” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
academic year is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk jɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The annual period during which a student attends school, college or university.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for academic year in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is academic year, spelled A-C-A-D-E-M-I-C- -Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1The annual period during which a student attends school, college or university.
This word in other languages
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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.