skunks
/skʌŋks/
"skunks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skunks” is uncommon English (frequency #51,999 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,999
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of skunk
Corpus desk
Index EN-skunks · skunks · English
skunks · rank #51,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,999
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skimp
Nearest frequency peer: skimp (-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 “skunks”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sirloin
sirloin
48,005 corpus weight
- Sivan
Sivan
48,004 corpus weight
- skimp
skimp
48,003 corpus weight
- skunks
skunks
48,002 corpus weight
- slicer
slicer
48,000 corpus weight
- slipstream
slipstream
47,999 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “skunks” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skunks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skʌŋks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “skunks” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
skunks is uncommon English at frequency #51,999 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /skʌŋks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of skunk".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for skunks, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 skunks, spelled S-K-U-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of skunk
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.