gac
/ɡæk/
"gac" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gac” is uncommon English (frequency #55,450 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,450
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gac · gac · English
gac · rank #55,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,450
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Gallaudet
Nearest frequency peer: Gallaudet (+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 neighbourhood for “gac”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fortifying
fortifying
44,557 corpus weight
- furrowed
furrowed
44,554 corpus weight
- gac
gac
44,551 corpus weight
- Gallaudet
Gallaudet
44,550 corpus weight
- gault
gault
44,547 corpus weight
- gerrit
gerrit
44,545 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gac” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gac |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡæk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gac” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gac is uncommon English at frequency #55,450 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡæk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.".
gac has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Vietnamese gấc. The correct English form is gac, spelled G-A-C.
Definition
- 1The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese gấc.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.