pranked
/pɹæŋkt/
"pranked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pranked” is uncommon English (frequency #63,153 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,153
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of prank
Corpus desk
Index EN-pranked · pranked · English
pranked · rank #63,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,153
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH praetorian
Nearest frequency peer: praetorian (-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 “pranked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pollux
Pollux
36,852 corpus weight
- Pottsville
Pottsville
36,851 corpus weight
- powerline
powerline
36,850 corpus weight
- praetorian
praetorian
36,849 corpus weight
- pranked
pranked
36,848 corpus weight
- pretax
pretax
36,846 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pranked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pranked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹæŋkt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pranked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pranked is uncommon English at frequency #63,153 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɹæŋkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of prank".
pranked doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is pranked, spelled P-R-A-N-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of prank
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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