banks
/ˈbæŋks/
"banks" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banks” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,061
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bank
Corpus desk
Index EN-banks · banks · English
banks · rank #2,061 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,061
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH attorney
Nearest frequency peer: attorney (-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 “banks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- appearance
appearance
97,943 corpus weight
- Asian
Asian
97,942 corpus weight
- attorney
attorney
97,941 corpus weight
- banks
banks
97,940 corpus weight
- behavior
behavior
97,939 corpus weight
- ben
ben
97,938 corpus weight
What this shows “banks” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæŋks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “banks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around banks (IPA /ˈbæŋks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,061 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of bank".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for banks, with forms such as "abnks", "bakns", and "bankks". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bas", "bars", "bass", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 English form is banks, spelled B-A-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bank
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnks
- bakns
- bankks
- bankss
- bannks
- bansk
- bbanks
- bnaks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banks - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).