sandbank
/ˈsændˌbæŋk/
"sandbank" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sandbank” is uncommon English (frequency #87,786 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,786
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sandbank |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsændˌbæŋk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sandbank” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sandbank is uncommon English at frequency #87,786 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsændˌbæŋk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sandbank, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sand + bank. Compare Dutch zandbank (“sandbank, shoal”), German Sandbank (“sandbank, sandbar, shoal”), Swedish sandbank (“sandbank, bar”). The correct English form is sandbank, spelled S-A-N-D-B-A-N-K.
Definition
- 1A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
Etymology
From sand + bank. Compare Dutch zandbank (“sandbank, shoal”), German Sandbank (“sandbank, sandbar, shoal”), Swedish sandbank (“sandbank, bar”).
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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Using “sandbank”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-N-D-B-A-N-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.