banking

/ˈbæŋkɪŋ/

//ˈbæŋkɪŋ// noun

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"banking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“banking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,926
frequency rank, English
4,121
“B” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The business of managing a bank.

Corpus desk

Index EN-banking · banking · English

banking · rank #3,926 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,926
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,121
  • PHOTO-FINISH breast

Nearest frequency peer: breast (+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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “banking”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “banking” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

banking vs biking
71% similar
banking vs basing
71% similar
banking vs baring
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for banking
PropertyValue
Headwordbanking
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈbæŋkɪŋ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,926
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “banking”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).bankinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “breast” (#3,927), “cant” (#3,928), “Ann” (#3,923). Among 4,121 “B” headwords, “banking” is #3,926. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around banking (IPA /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,926 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for banking, with forms such as "abnking", "bakning", and "banikng". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "biking", "basing", "baring", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is banking, spelled B-A-N-K-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    The business of managing a bank.
  2. 2
    The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
  3. 3
    Investment banking.
  4. 4
    A horizontal turn.
  5. 5
    A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
  6. 6
    The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how banking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  2. She became an analyst in banking after graduation, choosing that career path over sales and trading.

Synonyms

bankerage

This word in other languages

banca(Español)Banking(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abnking
  • bakning
  • banikng
  • bankign
  • bankingg
  • bankinng
  • bankking
  • banknig
  • bannking
  • bbanking
  • bnaking

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banking - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abnking2bakning2banikng2bankign2bankingg1bankinng1bankking1banknig2
Edit distance from "banking"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "banking"?
"banking" is spelled B-A-N-K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/.
What does "banking" mean?
As a noun, "banking" means: The business of managing a bank.
What words are commonly confused with "banking"?
"banking" is commonly confused with "biking", "basing", "baring". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "banking"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "banking" is /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "banking" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "banking", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Chelsea#3,930crossed#3,936Detroit#3,937scoring#3,907

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

would've11 variantsgorgeous11 variantsroughly11 variantsindicate11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list