skanks
/skæŋks/
"skanks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skanks” is uncommon English (frequency #88,860 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,860
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of skank
Corpus desk
Index EN-skanks · skanks · English
skanks · rank #88,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,860
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Simson
Nearest frequency peer: Simson (-3 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 “skanks”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- silvered
silvered
11,146 corpus weight
- Simm
Simm
11,145 corpus weight
- Simson
Simson
11,144 corpus weight
- skanks
skanks
11,141 corpus weight
- SMDH
SMDH
11,136 corpus weight
- snicket
snicket
11,132 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “skanks” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skanks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skæŋks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “skanks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
skanks is uncommon English at frequency #88,860 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /skæŋks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of skank".
Zero misspellings are on record for skanks in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 skanks, spelled S-K-A-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of skank
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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