actus
"actus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“actus” is uncommon English (frequency #97,759 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,759
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
Corpus desk
Index EN-actus · actus · English
actus · rank #97,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,759
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 “actus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Adeyemi
Adeyemi
2,239 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “actus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | actus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “actus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
actus is uncommon English at frequency #97,759 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
actus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin āctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act. The correct English form is actus, spelled A-C-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
- 2A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)
Etymology
From Latin āctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).