banksia
/ˈbæŋksɪə/
"banksia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banksia” is uncommon English (frequency #93,434 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,434
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-banksia · banksia · English
banksia · rank #93,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bandh
Nearest frequency peer: bandh (-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 “banksia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Balle
Balle
6,570 corpus weight
- bandh
bandh
6,568 corpus weight
- banksia
banksia
6,567 corpus weight
- bankside
bankside
6,566 corpus weight
- banky
banky
6,565 corpus weight
- Banquo
Banquo
6,563 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banksia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banksia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæŋksɪə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banksia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banksia is uncommon English at frequency #93,434 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbæŋksɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for banksia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from translingual Banksia. The correct English form is banksia, spelled B-A-N-K-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Banksia.
This word in other languages
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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