Hvala Bogu, Čačak ipak nije turcizam, od većih mesta turcizmi su samo
Yeni Bazaar,
Ćuprija i sve Palanke. To će morati da sačeka neku vlast koja će doneti odluku o opštem ukidanju turcizama i svega što je turski okupator ostavio za sobom.
The origin of the name is obscured today. However, several dictionaries from the 19th and even from the 20th century, including works of major linguists Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Đuro Daničić, mention words čačak and the corresponding adjective čačkovit, meaning (lumps of) frozen or dried mud, or lumps of stone protruding from the ground. The widening along the West Morava where Čačak is located, was indeed regularly flooded until the 20th century. Daničić suggested that the origin of the word is the root skak (skakati means jumping in Serbian). The word and its variants completely disappeared from Serbian language today, but some other toponymy of the same origin were preserved, like in the name of the Čakor [sr] mountain.[8]