plucks
/plʌks/
"plucks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plucks” is uncommon English (frequency #69,340 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,340
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of pluck
Corpus desk
Index EN-plucks · plucks · English
plucks · rank #69,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,340
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH plod
Nearest frequency peer: plod (-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 “plucks”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- photovoltai…
photovoltaics
30,665 corpus weight
- PII
PII
30,663 corpus weight
- plod
plod
30,662 corpus weight
- plucks
plucks
30,661 corpus weight
- Pocatello
Pocatello
30,660 corpus weight
- podiatrist
podiatrist
30,659 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “plucks” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plucks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /plʌks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “plucks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
plucks is uncommon English at frequency #69,340 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /plʌks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of pluck".
No generated misspelling entries exist for plucks in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is plucks, spelled P-L-U-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of pluck
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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