splunk
/splʌŋk/
"splunk" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“splunk” is uncommon English (frequency #99,892 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,892
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sound of something heavy landing in a liquid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-splunk · splunk · English
splunk · rank #99,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,892
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spined
Nearest frequency peer: spined (-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 “splunk”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- spearfish
spearfish
115 corpus weight
- spiker
spiker
111 corpus weight
- spined
spined
110 corpus weight
- splunk
splunk
109 corpus weight
- statesmanli…
statesmanlike
104 corpus weight
- Steadicam
Steadicam
103 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “splunk” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | splunk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /splʌŋk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “splunk” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
splunk is uncommon English at frequency #99,892 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /splʌŋk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The sound of something heavy landing in a liquid.".
splunk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Imitative; compare splash, splat, plunk. The correct English form is splunk, spelled S-P-L-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1The sound of something heavy landing in a liquid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how splunk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A splunk, like a rock hitting water, brought him to a standstill, straining to hear.
Splunk! Mid-muse, Darcy was startled by a weird noise — something between a splat and a thunk. Pausing in her apple-picking, she looked around. Splunk! There it was again!
Etymology
Imitative; compare splash, splat, plunk.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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