aker

noun

"aker" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“aker” is uncommon English (frequency #72,933 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,933
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of acre

Corpus desk

Index EN-aker · aker · English

aker · rank #72,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,933
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH Altuve

Nearest frequency peer: Altuve (+3 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 “aker”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “aker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aker
PropertyValue
Headwordaker
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#72,933
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “aker” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).akerfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Altuve” (#72,936), “Amazonas” (#72,937), “accrues” (#72,928). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “aker” is #72,933. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aker is uncommon English at frequency #72,933 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of acre".

No misspelling variants are generated for aker in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is aker, spelled A-K-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of acre

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. … crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...
  2. That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aker"?
"aker" is spelled A-K-E-R.
What does "aker" mean?
As a noun, "aker" means: Obsolete spelling of acre
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aker", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list