acrylate
/ˈækɹɪleɪt/
"acrylate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acrylate” is uncommon English (frequency #85,988 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,988
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt or ester of acrylic acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-acrylate · acrylate · English
acrylate · rank #85,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,988
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ACOG
Nearest frequency peer: ACOG (-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 “acrylate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abrogate
abrogate
14,017 corpus weight
- acanthus
acanthus
14,016 corpus weight
- Acheron
Acheron
14,015 corpus weight
- ACOG
ACOG
14,014 corpus weight
- acrylate
acrylate
14,013 corpus weight
- Adders
Adders
14,012 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “acrylate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acrylate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈækɹɪleɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “acrylate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
acrylate is uncommon English at frequency #85,988 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈækɹɪleɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt or ester of acrylic acid.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for acrylate, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From acrylic + -ate. The correct English form is acrylate, spelled A-C-R-Y-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt or ester of acrylic acid.
Etymology
From acrylic + -ate.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).