# pink

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈpɪŋk/ · frequency rank #2,905

## Definitions
1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
2. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
3. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
4. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
5. A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
6. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
7. A huntsman.
8. One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
9. An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
10. Alternative form of pinko.
11. The vagina or vulva.

## Etymology
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation.

## Easily confused with
- **PK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pk)
- **pit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pit)
- **pun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pun)
- **png** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-png)
- **pip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pip)
- **PKK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pkk)
- **PNC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pnc)
- **pon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pon)
- **pix** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pix)
- **PnP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pnp)
- **pir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pir)
- **pipe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pipe)
- **punk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-punk)
- **piss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-piss)
- **pork** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pork)
- **pity** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pity)
- **pond** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pond)
- **pony** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pony)
- **pins** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pins)
- **Pitt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pink-vs-pitt)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ipnk`, `pikn`, `pinkk`, `pinnk`, `pnik`, `ppink`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pink