aker
"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
- accrues
accrues
27,073 corpus weight
- aker
aker
27,068 corpus weight
- Altuve
Altuve
27,065 corpus weight
- Amazonas
Amazonas
27,064 corpus weight
- Amharic
Amharic
27,062 corpus weight
- AMZN
AMZN
27,061 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aker” in English
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
- 1Obsolete spelling of acre
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...
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.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).