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cack

/kæk/noun, verb

cack is spelled C-A-C-K: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cack means “A squawk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cack is cacks.

How many letters and syllables are in cack?

Letters4: C-A-C-K
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th 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 cack?

Cack appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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 cack?

  • /kæk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_cack.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cack

  • cacks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • cacking participle, present
  • cacked participle, past

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

What does cack mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A squawk.

  2. 2

    A discordant note.

  3. 3

    informalA cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)

  4. 4

    An act of defecation.

  5. 5

    slangExcrement.

  6. 6

    slangRubbish; anything worthless.

  7. 7

    slangPenis.

  8. 8

    An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young child.

  9. 9

    slangA young child.

verb

  1. 1

    To squawk.

  2. 2

    To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.

    The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.

  3. 3

    slangTo laugh.

    I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.

  4. 4

    To defecate.

  5. 5

    To defecate (on); to shit.

  6. 6

    To excrete (something) by defecation.

  7. 7

    USslangTo kill.

    He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.

  8. 8

    To cheat.

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

Cack in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchier, caguer (to defecate), caca (excrement)
Germankacken (to defecate), Kacke (excrement), Kacken (act of defecation)
Portuguesecagar (to defecate), caca (excrement)
Spanishcagar (to defecate), caca (excrement)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cack come from?

Onomatopoeia; see cackle.

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

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