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Acker vs Acter - What's the difference?

acker | acter |

As nouns the difference between acker and acter

is that acker is while acter is a play or film with a particular number of acts.

acker

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of (eagre).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 436:
    • The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].

    Etymology 2

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    * G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

    Anagrams

    * ----

    acter

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • A play or film with a particular number of acts.
    • a one-acter
    a two-acter
  • (uncommon) An actor, something which acts.