akka
"akka" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“akka” is an uncommon English word, ranked #69,627 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #69,627
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An elder sister.
| 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) |
Where “akka” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for akka is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #69,627 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “akka”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-K-K-A - 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.