akka
"akka" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“akka” is uncommon English (frequency #69,627 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,627
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An elder sister.
Corpus desk
Index EN-akka · akka · English
akka · rank #69,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,627
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ail
Nearest frequency peer: ail (-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 “akka”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- adenovirus
adenovirus
30,379 corpus weight
- admissibili…
admissibility
30,378 corpus weight
- ail
ail
30,375 corpus weight
- akka
akka
30,374 corpus weight
- Alessia
Alessia
30,370 corpus weight
- Allister
Allister
30,369 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “akka” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | akka |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “akka” in English
Rare enough to double-check
akka is uncommon English at frequency #69,627 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An elder sister.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for akka, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from a Dravidian language such as Tamil அக்கா (akkā), Kannada ಅಕ್ಕ (akka), Malayalam അക്ക (akka), Telugu అక్క (akka), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *akka. The correct English form is akka, spelled A-K-K-A.
Definition
- 1An elder sister.
Etymology
Borrowed from a Dravidian language such as Tamil அக்கா (akkā), Kannada ಅಕ್ಕ (akka), Malayalam അക്ക (akka), Telugu అక్క (akka), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *akka.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).