acar
noun
acar is a noun meaning “A vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, a local version of the Indian achar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-C-A-R, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of acar is acars.
What does acar mean?
noun
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A vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, a local version of the Indian achar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of acar
- acars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is acar?
Acar appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).
Where does acar come from?
From Malay/Indonesian acar. Doublet of achar, atchara, and atsara.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).