Plank
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The verdict
“Plank” is uncommon German (frequency #56,429 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,429
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Übung zur Kräftigung der Rumpfmuskulatur, bei der der Körper aus dem Unterarmstand in einer geraden Linie gehalten wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-plank · Plank · German
Plank · rank #56,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,429
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pionierarbeit
Nearest frequency peer: Pionierarbeit (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Plank“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pigment
Pigment
43,575 corpus weight
- Pilgrim
Pilgrim
43,574 corpus weight
- Pionierarbe…
Pionierarbeit
43,573 corpus weight
- Plank
Plank
43,572 corpus weight
- Plenarsaal
Plenarsaal
43,571 corpus weight
- Pointen
Pointen
43,570 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Plank“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Plank |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Plank“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Plank is uncommon German at frequency #56,429 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Übung zur Kräftigung der Rumpfmuskulatur, bei der der Körper aus dem Unterarmstand in einer geraden Linie gehalten wird".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Plank in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Plank, spelled P-L-A-N-K.
Definition
- 1Übung zur Kräftigung der Rumpfmuskulatur, bei der der Körper aus dem Unterarmstand in einer geraden Linie gehalten wird
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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