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pac

/pæk/noun

pac is spelled P-A-C: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pac means “Alternative form of pack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pac is pacs.

How many letters and syllables are in pac?

Letters3: P-A-C
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is pac?

Pac appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 pac?

  • /pæk/
  • [pʰæk]

Pac 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: En-au-pack.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with pac

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

pac vs pack0 B

Sounds like: pack (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: pack.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with pac?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pac.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: cap.

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 pac

  • pacs plural

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

What does pac mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUSAlternative form of pack.

  2. 2

    CanadaUSA moccasin with a sole made of leather or deerskin.

  3. 3

    CanadaUSA pac boot.

noun

as PAC
  1. 1

    Initialism of programmable automation controller.

  2. 2

    Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).

  3. 3

    Initialism of public accounts committee.

  4. 4

    USAcronym of political action committee.

  5. 5

    Initialism of presentation-abstraction-control.

  6. 6

    Initialism of Pan American Championships.

adjective

as PAC
  1. 1

    Initialism of probably approximately correct.

adjective

as Pac
  1. 1

    Alternative form of Pac. (abbreviation of Pacific)

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

Where does pac come from?

Clipping of shoepac.

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

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