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
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A white (Caucasian) person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cac · cac · English
cac · rank #33,969 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,969
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Burnside
Nearest frequency peer: Burnside (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “cac”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- brisket
brisket
66,035 corpus weight
- buckeye
buckeye
66,034 corpus weight
- Burnside
Burnside
66,033 corpus weight
- cac
cac
66,032 corpus weight
- cairn
cairn
66,031 corpus weight
- campo
campo
66,029 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “cac” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “cac”
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 5,599 “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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