banca
/bɐŋˈkaʔ/
"banca" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banca” is uncommon English (frequency #65,713 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,713
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout.
Corpus desk
Index EN-banca · banca · English
banca · rank #65,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,713
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH banqueting
Nearest frequency peer: banqueting (+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 “banca”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baffin
Baffin
34,291 corpus weight
- baggie
baggie
34,290 corpus weight
- banca
banca
34,288 corpus weight
- banqueting
banqueting
34,287 corpus weight
- barest
barest
34,286 corpus weight
- barrelled
barrelled
34,284 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banca” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐŋˈkaʔ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banca” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banca is uncommon English at frequency #65,713 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɐŋˈkaʔ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout.".
banca doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Philippine Spanish banca, from Tagalog bangka. The correct English form is banca, spelled B-A-N-C-A.
Definition
- 1A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In towns on plains near the sea it is difficult to secure good water. The rivers are salt and water has to be carried in bancas many miles. An open banca is neither a clean nor a safe way to carry water.
Etymology
From Philippine Spanish banca, from Tagalog bangka.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).