shanked
/ʃæŋkt/
"shanked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shanked” is uncommon English (frequency #71,912 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,912
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of shank
Corpus desk
Index EN-shanked · shanked · English
shanked · rank #71,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,912
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shakey
Nearest frequency peer: shakey (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shanked”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Shadi
Shadi
28,092 corpus weight
- shahi
shahi
28,091 corpus weight
- shakey
shakey
28,090 corpus weight
- shanked
shanked
28,089 corpus weight
- Shehu
Shehu
28,088 corpus weight
- Sheringham
Sheringham
28,087 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shanked” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shanked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃæŋkt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shanked” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shanked is uncommon English at frequency #71,912 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʃæŋkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of shank".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shanked, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is shanked, spelled S-H-A-N-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of shank
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.