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snack

/snæk/noun, verb

snack is spelled S-N-A-C-K: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snack means “A light meal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snack is snacks.

How many letters and syllables are in snack?

Letters5: S-N-A-C-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is snack?

Snack appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 snack?

  • /snæk/

Snack 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-snack.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of snack

  • snacks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • snacc
  • snacking participle, present
  • snacked participle, past

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

What does snack mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A light meal.

  2. 2

    An item of food eaten between meals.

  3. 3

    slangA very sexy and attractive person.

  4. 4

    obsoleteA share; a part or portion.

verb

  1. 1

    To eat a light meal.

  2. 2

    To eat between meals.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo snatch.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo bite.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo share.

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

Snack in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcasse-croûte m or casse-croute, hors-d'œuvre, goûter, encas (a light meal), grignotage (an item of food eaten between meals), grignoter (to eat a light meal)
GermanImbiss, Happen, Snack, Jause (a light meal), Zwischenmahlzeit (an item of food eaten between meals), jausnen (to eat a light meal)
Portugueselanche, comidinha, petisco (a light meal), lanchar, merendar, laricar (to eat a light meal)
Spanishtentempié, refrigerio, bocadillo), aperitivo, bocado, botana (a light meal)

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 snack come from?

From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”). Cognate with German schnäken (“to snack”).

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

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