planking
"planking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“planking” is uncommon English (frequency #53,170 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,170
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A series of planks; a group of planks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-planking · planking · English
planking · rank #53,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,170
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pineal
Nearest frequency peer: pineal (-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 “planking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pickpocket
pickpocket
46,833 corpus weight
- pineal
pineal
46,832 corpus weight
- planking
planking
46,831 corpus weight
- playmaking
playmaking
46,830 corpus weight
- Poirier
Poirier
46,829 corpus weight
- poopy
poopy
46,828 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “planking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “planking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
planking is uncommon English at frequency #53,170 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
planking doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From plank + -ing. The correct English form is planking, spelled P-L-A-N-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A series of planks; a group of planks.
- 2The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how planking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
First, there was planking. People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet.
[…] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]
Etymology
From plank + -ing.
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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