banks
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
- avérée
avérée
80,551 corpus weight
- bailleurs
bailleurs
80,550 corpus weight
- bali
bali
80,549 corpus weight
- banks
banks
80,548 corpus weight
- Barthélemy
Barthélemy
80,547 corpus weight
- Bert
Bert
80,546 corpus weight
What this shows « banks » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | banks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « banks »
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
- 1Rosa banksiae.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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).