frack
/fɹæk/
"frack" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“frack” is uncommon English (frequency #56,756 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,756
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Corpus desk
Index EN-frack · frack · English
frack · rank #56,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,756
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH FPV
Nearest frequency peer: FPV (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “frack”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- forme
forme
43,249 corpus weight
- fourfold
fourfold
43,247 corpus weight
- FPV
FPV
43,246 corpus weight
- frack
frack
43,245 corpus weight
- frankincense
frankincense
43,244 corpus weight
- Freese
Freese
43,243 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “frack” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frack |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɹæk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “frack” in English
Rare enough to double-check
frack is uncommon English at frequency #56,756 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fɹæk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).".
Zero misspellings are on record for frack in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking. The correct English form is frack, spelled F-R-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mrs. Crawley recalled driving past the Riverdale Mobile Home Park, whose residents were being forced out to make way for a facility that would withdraw water from the river to frack gas wells, in the summer of 2012 and seeing a bunch of “picketers” from “out of the area that just came in and camped up there” as part of what supporters called Occupy Riverd…
Etymology
From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking.
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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