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akka

noun

akka is spelled A-K-K-A: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, akka means “An elder sister” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of akka is akkas.

How many letters and syllables are in akka?

Letters4: A-K-K-A
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 69,884th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is akka?

Akka appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with akka?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as akka.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: kaka.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of akka

  • akkas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does akka mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaAn elder sister.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does akka come from?

Borrowed from a Dravidian language such as Tamil அக்கா (akkā), Kannada ಅಕ್ಕ (akka), Malayalam അക്ക (akka), Telugu అక్క (akka), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *akka.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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