cac
/kæk/
"cac" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cac” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,969) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,969
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A white (Caucasian) person.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cac |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kæk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cac” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cac is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CD", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kæk/. Frequency #33,969 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Gloss: "A white (Caucasian) person.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cac in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CD", "CM", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Acronym of cracker-ass cracker. Emerged on African-American internet forums in the early 2000s. Originally spelled in uppercase (see CAC), with the lowercase form becoming more popular in the 2010s. The reduplication "cracker-ass cracker" was popularised by… The correct English form is cac, spelled C-A-C.
Definition
- 1A white (Caucasian) person.
Etymology
Acronym of cracker-ass cracker. Emerged on African-American internet forums in the early 2000s. Originally spelled in uppercase (see CAC), with the lowercase form becoming more popular in the 2010s. The reduplication "cracker-ass cracker" was popularised by stand-up comedian Chris Rock in his 1999 television special Bigger & Blacker.
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 “cac”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kæk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “co” - see the side-by-side comparison. cac vs co
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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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.