banks

adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,453

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

banks is anFrenchadj. It means: Rosa banksiae. Often confused with bas and bons.

Key facts for banks
PropertyValue
Headwordbanks
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,453
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of banks in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for banks is 5 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #19,453 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rosa banksiae.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for banks, with forms such as "abnks", "bakns", and "bankks". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bas", "bons", "bars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is banks, spelled B-A-N-K-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rosa banksiae.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abnks,bakns,bankks,bankss,bannks,bansk,bbanks,bnaks

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banks

Misspelling Variants of "banks"

abnks5bakns5bankks6bankss6bannks6bansk5bbanks6bnaks5
Misspelling Variants of "banks"

Frequency rank: #19,453 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "banks"?
"banks" is spelled B-A-N-K-S.
What does "banks" mean?
As an adj, "banks" means: Rosa banksiae.
What words are commonly confused with "banks"?
"banks" is commonly confused with "bas", "bons", "bars". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "banks" come from?
"banks" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.