banks

adj

The verdict

“banks” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,453
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rosa banksiae.

Corpus desk

Index FR-banks · banks · French

banks · rank #19,453 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,453
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bali

Nearest frequency peer: bali (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « banks »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « banks » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

banks vs bas
60% similar
banks vs bons
60% similar
banks vs bars
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « banks »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).banksse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bali » (#19,452), « Barthélemy » (#19,454), « bailleurs » (#19,451). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « banks » est au #19,453. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around banks, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,453 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rosa banksiae.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for banks, with forms such as "abnks", "bakns", and "bankks". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bas", "bons", "bars", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is banks, spelled B-A-N-K-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rosa banksiae.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how banks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au Japon, le rosier banks escalade la cime des plus grands arbres.... le troisième groupe se compose de rosiers multiflores, à la suite desquels il faut placer le rosier banks.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abnks
  • bakns
  • bankks
  • bankss
  • bannks
  • bansk
  • bbanks
  • bnaks

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banks - 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.

abnks2bakns2bankks1bankss1bannks1bansk2bbanks1bnaks2
Edit distance from "banks"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "banks"?
"banks" is spelled B-A-N-K-S.
What does "banks" mean?
As an adjective, "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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "banks", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list