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arrack

/əˈɹæk/noun

arrack is spelled A-R-R-A-C-K: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, arrack means “An alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of arrack is arracks.

How many letters and syllables are in arrack?

Letters6: A-R-R-A-C-K
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is arrack?

Arrack appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).

How do you pronounce arrack?

  • /əˈɹæk/
  • /ˈɛɹ.ɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-arrack.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-arrack2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of arrack

  • arracks plural
  • arak

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

What does arrack mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia.

  2. 2

    An alcoholic drink made from sugar cane and fermented red rice in Indonesia.

  3. 3

    Alternative spelling of arak (“aniseed-flavored alcoholic drink consumed primarily in the Middle East”).

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

Where does arrack come from?

See arak.

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

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