acquits
/əˈkwɪts/
"acquits" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acquits” is uncommon English (frequency #97,757 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,757
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of acquit
Corpus desk
Index EN-acquits · acquits · English
acquits · rank #97,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,757
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ActionScript
Nearest frequency peer: ActionScript (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “acquits”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abhinav
Abhinav
2,247 corpus weight
- absorptive
absorptive
2,246 corpus weight
- acquits
acquits
2,244 corpus weight
- ActionScript
ActionScript
2,243 corpus weight
- actus
actus
2,242 corpus weight
- Adah
Adah
2,241 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “acquits” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acquits |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈkwɪts/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “acquits” in English
Rare enough to double-check
acquits is uncommon English at frequency #97,757 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈkwɪts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of acquit".
acquits has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is acquits, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of acquit
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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