skylark
/ˈskaɪlɑːk/
"skylark" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skylark” is uncommon English (frequency #55,107 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,107
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skylark |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskaɪlɑːk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “skylark” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
skylark is uncommon English at frequency #55,107 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈskaɪlɑːk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.".
No misspelling variants are generated for skylark in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sky + lark. Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details. The correct English form is skylark, spelled S-K-Y-L-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
Etymology
From sky + lark. Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
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 “skylark”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-K-Y-L-A-R-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.