drink
/dɹɪŋk/
"drink" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drink” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,334
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drink · drink · English
drink · rank #1,334 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,334
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doubt
Nearest frequency peer: doubt (-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 “drink”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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98,670 corpus weight
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98,669 corpus weight
- doubt
doubt
98,668 corpus weight
- drink
drink
98,667 corpus weight
- driving
driving
98,666 corpus weight
- established
established
98,665 corpus weight
What this shows “drink” 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 | drink |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɹɪŋk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “drink”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around drink (IPA /dɹɪŋk/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,334 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for drink, with forms such as "ddrink", "dirnk", and "drikn". 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, "drip", "dunk", "drive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth… The correct English form is drink, spelled D-R-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- 2To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- 3To consume alcoholic beverages.
- 4To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- 5To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- 6To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
- 7To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
- 8To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
- 9To smoke, as tobacco.
- 10Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He drank the water I gave him.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Etymology
From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”). Cognates Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch, Low German drinken (“to drink”), German, Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese, Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddrink
- dirnk
- drikn
- drinkk
- drinnk
- drnik
- drrink
- rdink
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drink - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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