Arrack

Definition: Arrack

Arrack

Noun

1. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.

Date "arrack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Etymology: Arrack \Ar"rack\, noun. [from Arabic expression araq sweat, juice, spirituous liquor, from araqa to sweat. Compare to Rack arrack.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Arrack

Synonym: arak (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Arrack

English words defined with "arrack": Palm wine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Arrack" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (arrack).

"Arrack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arrack" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "arrack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		arak (rack). (various references)

Arabic		‏العرق مشروب مسكر. (various references)

Bulgarian		кокосова ракия, оризова ракия, арак (rack). (various references)

Chinese		亚力�'. (various references)

Danish		arrak (arak). (various references)

Dutch		arak (rack). (various references)

Esperanto		arako (rack). (various references)

Farsi		عرق نارگیل وبرنج , عرق (Distillate, Sweat). (various references)

Finnish		arrakki (arak). (various references)

French		arrack, arrac (arak), arak (arak), arack, arac (arak). (various references)

German		Arrak (rack). (various references)

Greek		αράκ (arak). (various references)

Hungarian		rizspálinka (arak, rack, sake). (various references)

Icelandic		standur (rack), grind (rack). (various references)

Indonesian		arak (geneva, gin, liquor, rice wine). (various references)

Italian		arac (arak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アラタ�" (arrack or arak, corpus allatum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アラック (arrack or arak). (various references)

Malay		kacang (bean, rack). (various references)

Pig Latin		arrackay

Portuguese		araca (rack), aguardente de arroz (arak). (various references)

Russian		арак. (various references)

Spanish		arrac (arak), aguardiente de arroz (arak). (various references)

Swedish		arrak (arak). (various references)

Thai		เหล้าชนิ�"หนึ่งในประเทศมุสลิม. (various references)

Turkish		rakı (anisette, raki). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "arrack": arracks. (additional references)
	Words ending with "arrack": barrack, carrack. (additional references)
	Words containing "arrack": barracked, barracker, barrackers, barracking, barracks, carracks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Arrack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrack, Airtrak, arac, Aracy, arake, Arasak, arric, Arrick, Arvac, atrack, Darrach, Darracq, Garriock, Harrock, Marbrack, Marrick, Rarick, Razack, varpack. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "arrack" (pronounced 'Ar"rack'): Armrack, hatrack, hayrack, Penrack, rickrack, Shabrack, Sheeprack. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-k-r-r"
	-2 letters: arak, cark, carr, rack.
	-3 letters: arc, ark, car.
	-4 letters: aa, ar, ka.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-k-r-r"
	+1 letter: arracks, barrack, carrack.
	+2 letters: barracks, carmaker, carracks.
	+3 letters: barracked, barracker, caretaker, carjacker, carmakers, carryback, racetrack, ransacker, razorback.
	+4 letters: barrackers, barracking, caretakers, carjackers, carrybacks, crackbrain, racetracks, racewalker, ransackers, razorbacks, repackager, tracklayer.
	+5 letters: backbreaker, crackbrains, crackerjack, crackleware, quarterback, racetracker, racewalkers, repackagers, safecracker, tracklayers, trackwalker.
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