Starck
"starck" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Starck” is uncommon English (frequency #80,911 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,911
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-starck · Starck · English
Starck · rank #80,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,911
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH starman
Nearest frequency peer: starman (+2 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 “Starck”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spondylitis
spondylitis
19,097 corpus weight
- Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania
19,095 corpus weight
- springwood
springwood
19,093 corpus weight
- Starck
Starck
19,090 corpus weight
- starman
starman
19,088 corpus weight
- steno
steno
19,083 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Starck” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Starck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Starck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Starck is uncommon English at frequency #80,911 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Starck, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Starčević, from starac (“old man”). Compare Starkovich. * As an Americanized Slovene variant of the above, from Starc; see Startz. * Also as a Serbo-Croatian surname, from Štark, itself from German; see Stark. The correct English form is Starck, spelled S-T-A-R-C-K.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Starčević, from starac (“old man”). Compare Starkovich. * As an Americanized Slovene variant of the above, from Starc; see Startz. * Also as a Serbo-Croatian surname, from Štark, itself from German; see Stark.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).