anker
"anker" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anker” is uncommon English (frequency #50,356 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,356
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anker · anker · English
anker · rank #50,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,356
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Anheuser
Nearest frequency peer: Anheuser (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “anker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Amie
Amie
49,648 corpus weight
- Amiens
Amiens
49,647 corpus weight
- Anheuser
Anheuser
49,646 corpus weight
- anker
anker
49,645 corpus weight
- antimony
antimony
49,644 corpus weight
- appraise
appraise
49,642 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “anker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “anker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
anker is uncommon English at frequency #50,356 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.".
No misspelling variants are generated for anker in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dutch anker. Doublet of anchor and ancora. The correct English form is anker, spelled A-N-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And if your honour ſhould want a ſmall parcel of fine tea, or a few anchors of right Nantz, I'll be bound you ſhall be furniſhed to your heart's content.
[I]t is quite a painful reflection how many whole crews we have made to walk the plank for no more than a stock of biscuit or an anker or two of spirit.
Etymology
From Dutch anker. Doublet of anchor and ancora.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).