Pick, pickaxe or pickax

[Untaught88]

Hi,

Which one is more common?

Pick, pickaxe or pickax

 

[Rover_KE]

Click here.

Bookmark the site for future reference.

 

[Untaught88]

How to understand the graph?

Does it mean "pick" is the most common?

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes — by a long way.

 

[GoesStation]

You need to specify that you're looking for pick as a noun. It's still way more popular but only by one order of magnitude -- and that assume's the n-gram viewer got the part of speech right.

 

[GoesStation]

The n-gram viewer is a terrific tool but it can't answer every question.