slacks
"slacks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slacks” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #33,420 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #33,420
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single p...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slacks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “slacks” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for slacks is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #33,420 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single p...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for slacks, with forms such as "lsacks", "salcks", and "slaccks". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sucks", "stack", "socks", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is slacks, spelled S-L-A-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single pair; may be referred to as a pair of slacks.)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lsacks,salcks,slaccks,slackks,slackss,slacsk,slakcs,slcaks,sllacks,sslacks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slacks - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “slacks”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-L-A-C-K-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “sucks” - see the side-by-side comparison. slacks vs sucks
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.