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banked

/bæŋkt/adjective, verb

banked is spelled B-A-N-K-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, banked means “Piled high” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in banked?

Letters6: B-A-N-K-E-D
Syllables1
In writing1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is banked?

Banked appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce banked?

  • /bæŋkt/
  • /beɪ̯ŋkt/
  • /bɛ̃ŋkt/

Banked has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does banked mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Piled high.

    He tripped and fell on the banked corners of the road.

  2. 2

    Of a cheque, deposited in a bank.

  3. 3

    Having a bank (financial institution).

    unbanked and inadequately banked rural areas

  4. 4

    Having a bank or row.

    a single-banked boat, having only one bank of oars

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of bank (a form of bank)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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