plank
/pleɪŋk/, /plæŋk/
The verdict
“plank” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,694 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,694
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plataforma, prancha, tábua grossa de madeira
Corpus desk
Index PT-plank · plank · Portuguese
plank · rank #67,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,694
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH plutónio
Nearest frequency peer: plutónio (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “plank”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- patada
patada
32,320 corpus weight
- percevejo
percevejo
32,312 corpus weight
- pez
pez
32,310 corpus weight
- plank
plank
32,307 corpus weight
- plutónio
plutónio
32,306 corpus weight
- Polka
Polka
32,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “plank” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plank |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pleɪŋk/, /plæŋk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “plank” em português
Rare enough to double-check
plank is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,694 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pleɪŋk/, /plæŋk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plank, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is plank, spelled P-L-A-N-K.
Definition
- 1plataforma, prancha, tábua grossa de madeira
- 2idiota, estúpido
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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