Frink
"frink" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Frink” is uncommon English (frequency #81,344 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,344
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-frink · Frink · English
Frink · rank #81,344 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,344
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Frenchwoman
Nearest frequency peer: Frenchwoman (-2 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 “Frink”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fogle
fogle
18,666 corpus weight
- framerate
framerate
18,662 corpus weight
- freest
freest
18,661 corpus weight
- Frenchwoman
Frenchwoman
18,659 corpus weight
- Frink
Frink
18,657 corpus weight
- gametime
gametime
18,650 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Frink” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Frink |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Frink” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Frink is uncommon English at frequency #81,344 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Frink in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Frink, spelled F-R-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Frink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On June 3, 1931, she married Orrin Frink, Jr., who had joined the mathematics faculty at Penn State in 1928 as an assistant professor.
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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