aik
"aik" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aik” is uncommon English (frequency #75,600 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,600
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To drive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aik · aik · English
aik · rank #75,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,600
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Akiyama
Nearest frequency peer: Akiyama (+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 “aik”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- accessorize
accessorize
24,406 corpus weight
- adulting
adulting
24,405 corpus weight
- advantageou…
advantageously
24,404 corpus weight
- aik
aik
24,401 corpus weight
- Akiyama
Akiyama
24,400 corpus weight
- Aldgate
Aldgate
24,397 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aik” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aik |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aik” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aik is uncommon English at frequency #75,600 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To drive.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aik, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną. The correct English form is aik, spelled A-I-K.
Definition
- 1To drive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).