gangplank
"gangplank" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gangplank” is uncommon English (frequency #75,903 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,903
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gangplank · gangplank · English
gangplank · rank #75,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,903
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH garg
Nearest frequency peer: garg (+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 “gangplank”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gamaliel
Gamaliel
24,102 corpus weight
- Gandhian
Gandhian
24,100 corpus weight
- gangplank
gangplank
24,098 corpus weight
- garg
garg
24,097 corpus weight
- Garo
Garo
24,096 corpus weight
- Garratt
Garratt
24,095 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gangplank” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gangplank |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gangplank” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gangplank is uncommon English at frequency #75,903 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gangplank in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) + plank (“board”). The correct English form is gangplank, spelled G-A-N-G-P-L-A-N-K.
Definition
- 1A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gangplank appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Every since the age of six Troy Belknap of New York had embarked for Europe every June on the fastest steamer of one of the most expensive lines. With his family he had descended at the dock from a large noiseless motor, had kissed his father good-bye, turned back to shake hands with the chauffeur (a particular friend), and trotted up the gang-plank behin…
Etymology
From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) + plank (“board”).
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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