aker
"aker" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aker” is an uncommon English word, ranked #72,933 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,933
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of acre
| 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) |
Where “aker” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for aker is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #72,933 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “aker”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-K-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.