lac
/læk/noun
lac is spelled L-A-C: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Lac, the name). As a noun, lac means “A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lac is lacs.
How many letters and syllables are in lac?
| Letters | 3: L-A-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lac?
Lac appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Lac, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lac?
- /læk/
As a noun (“Laceration”): /læs/, /læk/.
Lac has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lac.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lac?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lac.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cal, alc.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of lac
- lacs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lac mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
- 2
Dated spelling of lakh.
- 3
colloquialLaceration.
hand lac
- 4
slangClipping of Cadillac
Last night I was driving around in my lac.
noun
- 1
UKInitialism of looked-after children.
- 2
Acronym of L-acetylcarnitine (“acetylated L-carnitine”).
- 3
Abbreviation of leading aircraftman.
noun
- 1
Initialism of licensed acupuncturist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lac in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a resinous substance:
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 lac come from?
From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).