# pack

> English word · Noun · IPA /pæk/ · frequency rank #2,224

## Definitions
1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
2. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
3. A multitude.
4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
5. A full set of playing cards
6. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
7. A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
8. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
9. A flock of knots.
10. A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
11. A group of Cub Scouts.
12. A shook of cask staves.
13. A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
14. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
15. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
16. A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
17. A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
18. The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
19. The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
20. A package of cigarettes.

## Etymology
From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”).
Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).

## Easily confused with
- **PC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pc)
- **PK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pk)
- **pay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pay)
- **Pan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pan)
- **pat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pat)
- **pic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pic)
- **par** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-par)
- **pad** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pad)
- **PAL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pal)
- **pcs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pcs)
- **PLC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-plc)
- **pam** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pam)
- **pas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pas)
- **paw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-paw)
- **Pak** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pak)
- **pax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pax)
- **pap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pap)
- **PVC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pvc)
- **PCB** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pcb)
- **PCR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pack-vs-pcr)

## Common misspellings (6)
`apck`, `pacck`, `packk`, `pakc`, `pcak`, `ppack`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pack