gak
/ɡæk/
"gak" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gak” is uncommon English (frequency #80,473 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,473
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of gack (“expression of disgust or disapproval”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-gak · gak · English
gak · rank #80,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,473
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gabled
Nearest frequency peer: gabled (-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 “gak”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fromage
fromage
19,532 corpus weight
- furosemide
furosemide
19,531 corpus weight
- furst
furst
19,530 corpus weight
- gabled
gabled
19,529 corpus weight
- gak
gak
19,528 corpus weight
- gammy
gammy
19,527 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gak” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gak |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ɡæk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #80,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gak” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gak is uncommon English at frequency #80,473 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ɡæk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gak has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is gak, spelled G-A-K.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of gack (“expression of disgust or disapproval”).
- 2Alternative form of gack (“expression of trepidation”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
proselytizing is, ultimately, a disgusting way of relating to people. whether it's amway, xnty, or discovery toys, it's just awful manipulation pride and disrespect. i hate it, i hate that i did it, it's yucky yucky yucky. puke puke gak vomit.
Unsure what to make of it, I flicked on Entertainment Tonight (7:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC, Global) to find — gak — his sister Marie, who served her own headline-grabbing stint on Dancing two seasons ago, being treated like visiting royalty by the outrageously overcaffeinated Mary Hart.
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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