yanked
/jæŋkt/
"yanked" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yanked” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,894. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,894
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of yank
Corpus desk
Index EN-yanked · yanked · English
yanked · rank #29,894 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,894
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH wrongfully
Nearest frequency peer: wrongfully (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “yanked”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- weighting
weighting
70,112 corpus weight
- withers
withers
70,109 corpus weight
- wrongfully
wrongfully
70,108 corpus weight
- yanked
yanked
70,107 corpus weight
- Abercrombie
Abercrombie
70,104 corpus weight
- abhorrent
abhorrent
70,103 corpus weight
What this shows “yanked” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yanked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /jæŋkt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “yanked”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around yanked (IPA /jæŋkt/), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,894 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of yank".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for yanked, with forms such as "aynked", "yakned", and "yanekd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Yankee", "yank", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is yanked, spelled Y-A-N-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of yank
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aynked
- yakned
- yanekd
- yankde
- yankedd
- yankked
- yannked
- ynaked
- yyanked
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yanked - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yanked", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).