plonk
/plɒŋk/
"plonk" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plonk” is uncommon English (frequency #79,863 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,863
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sound made by something solid landing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plonk · plonk · English
plonk · rank #79,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,863
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Piven
Nearest frequency peer: Piven (-4 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 “plonk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pili
pili
20,146 corpus weight
- Pilsen
Pilsen
20,145 corpus weight
- Pisgah
Pisgah
20,143 corpus weight
- Piven
Piven
20,142 corpus weight
- plonk
plonk
20,138 corpus weight
- Portishead
Portishead
20,132 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “plonk” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plonk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /plɒŋk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “plonk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
plonk is uncommon English at frequency #79,863 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /plɒŋk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for plonk in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk. The correct English form is plonk, spelled P-L-O-N-K.
Definition
- 1The sound made by something solid landing.
- 2The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).