acre
/ˈeɪ.kɚ/noun
acre is spelled A-C-R-E: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, acre means “An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of acre is acres.
How many letters and syllables are in acre?
| Letters | 4: A-C-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is acre?
Acre appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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).
How do you pronounce acre?
- UK /ˈeɪ.kə/
- US /ˈeɪ.kɚ/
Acre has 2 syllables (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: En-us-acre.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with acre
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with acre?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as acre from its last stressed vowel (/eɪkəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: care, race, acer, caer.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of acre
- acres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does acre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
- 2
An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
- 3
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- 4
informalA wide expanse.
I like my new house–there’s acres of space!
- 5
informalA large quantity.
- 6
obsoleteA field.
- 7
obsoleteThe acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
- 8
obsoleteA duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate acre?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of acre: a., ac, ac..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Acre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unit of surface area:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | acre |
| German | Morgen, Acker, Joch, Joch Landes, Juchart |
| Portuguese | acre, jeira |
| Spanish | acre |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does acre come from?
From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).