Lank

Definitions: Lank

Lank

Adjective

1. Long and thin and often limp; "grown lank with fasting"; "lank mousy hair".

2. Long and lean.

Date "lank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Lank

Synonym: spindly (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Narrowness Thinness	Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lank

English words defined with "lank": Lank hair, Lankly, Lankness ♦ Slab-sided, Slinky. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lank" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (a long time, for a long time, long).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Hank and Lank (1910)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Atlas of Mineral Resources of the Escap Region (Volume 5, Sri Lank Explanatory Brochure) (reference) Fodor India Nepal/Sri Lank 1986 (reference) Lank of the Little League (reference) Van Papland na Prentjiesberg : 'n weeshuisstorie van lank gelede (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Lank Haired Girl to Bearded Boy [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Three Voices	Carroll, Lewis	With huge umbrella, lank and brown, Unerringly she pinned it down, Right through the centre of the crown.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The lank brown horses knew it and shook their bells to the clear night in admonition.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	His visage was meager, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Lank" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.93% of the time. "Lank" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	82.93%	34	59,261
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.76%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	4.88%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	2.44%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	41	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "lank" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Lank	Last name	400	20,145
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "lank": Lank hair. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lank": lank-haired.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "lank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, regular, right, Square, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white), hollak (lanky), gjatosh (high in stature). (various references)

Arabic		‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏ضامر (atrophied, lean, raw boned, scraggy, skinny, slender), ‏باهت (dim, dull, faint, indistinct, pale, pallid, wan, washed out). (various references)

Bulgarian		възслаб, висок (altisonant, altitude, elevated, eminent, formal, heavy, high, high pitched, large, lofty, long, loud, soaring, strapping), мършав (fleshless, gaunt, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin, weedy). (various references)

Chinese		瘦 (leanness). (various references)

Czech		hubený (jejune, lean, slender, slim, spare, stingy, thin). (various references)

Finnish		hontelo (gangling, scraggy), hoikka (slender, slim, thin). (various references)

French		terne, raide, mou (lax), grêle, étiole. (various references)

German		strähnig (ragged, straggly, stringy), schmächtig (frail, lankly, slender, slight, slighted, sligth, thin, weedy), dünn (filiform, fine, finely, flimsy, gaunt, lean, rare, rarefied, skinny, sparse, sparsely, spindly, tabular, tenuous, tenuously, thin, thinly, thinn, watery, weak). (various references)

Greek		ισχνόσ (gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slender, slim, spare, thin), μαλλιά σαν πράσα, λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, nice, rangy, refined, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish), ψιλόλιγνοσ (spindly). (various references)

Hebrew		כחוש ו�'בו�". (various references)

Hungarian		vékonydongájú, vékony (attenuate, fine, flimsy, gaunt, lean, reedy, sheer, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, thinner, wispy), karcsú (attenuate, fine, jimp, lithe, rangy, reedy, slender, slight, slim, svelte), hosszú (kemp, long, prolonged). (various references)

Italian		liscio (bald, glib, makeup, neat, plain, simple, sleek, slick, smooth, smoothly, straightforward, swimmingly, undeluted), stecchito, alto e magro. (various references)

Manx		thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), shang (emaciated, gaunt, gracile, lanky, lean, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy). (various references)

Norwegian		mager (haggard, lean), glatt (even, flush, glib, glossy, icy). (various references)

Pig Latin		anklay

Portuguese		magro (angular, bony, contracted, gaunt, haggard, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, light, little, low, milk and water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy washy), esguio (lanky, lean, rangy, slender, slim, thin), esbelto (elegant, graceful, jimp, slender, slim, thin, willowy), delgado (elongate, fine, gaunt, lean, reedy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, wispy), correia (bail clamp, belt, cross strap, laodicean, leash, lifting belt, strap, thong, webbing, whang). (various references)

Romanian		lung şi subţire (lanky), lins (lanky, liched, lick, licking, sleek, smooth, smoothed), rar (choice, exceptional, far between, infrequent, lanky, occasionally, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, thinly, uncommon, unusual), ofticos (consumptive, lunger, patient, ramshackle, raw boned, scanty, wasted, weak), neted (clear, even, evenly, flat, flush, level ground, plain, plane, polished, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, smoothly), deşirat (clever, lean, loose, thin, unwound), înalt şi slab. (various references)

Russian		тощий (gaunt, lean, scraggy, scrannel, skinny), гладкий (clean, even, glace, glassy, glib, level, lubricous, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, unruffled), высокий и тонкий, прямой (candid, direct, downright, erect, face-to-face, first hand, first-level, flat, forthright, free-spoken, outright, outspoken, peer-to-peer, plain, plain dealer, straight, straight out, straightaway, straighted, straightforward, straight-out, up and down, upright). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		suvonjav (lean, slim, spare), suv (arid, dried, droughty, dry, sec), nevalovit. (various references)

Spanish		alto y delgado (rangy). (various references)

Swedish		mager (gaunt, hungry, ill-conditioned, lean, meagre, parsimonious, peaked, poor, raw boned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, thin). (various references)

Turkish		zayıf ve uzun boylu, uzun boylu ve ince, sıska (gaunt, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, weedy), sırık gibi (gangling, lanky, tall and thin). (various references)

Turkmen		takyr (plain). (various references)

Ukranian		худорлявий (bony, gaunt, slab-sided, slight), некучерявий. (various references)

Vietnamese		gầy (gaunt, slight). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lank": lanker, lankest, lankier, lankiest, lankily, lankiness, lankinesses, lankly, lankness, lanknesses, lanky. (additional references)
	Words ending with "lank": blank, clank, flank, gangplank, outflank, plank, slank. (additional references)
	Words containing "lank": blanked, blanker, blankest, blanket, blanketed, blanketflower, blanketflowers, blanketing, blanketlike, blankets, blanking, blankly, blankness, blanknesses, blanks, clanked, clanking, clankingly, clanks, flanked, flanken, flankens, flanker, flankers, flanking, flanks, gangplanks, microplankton, microplanktons, nannoplankton, nannoplanktons, outflanked, outflanking, outflanks, phytoplankter, phytoplankters, phytoplankton, phytoplanktonic, phytoplanktons, planked, planking, plankings, planks, plankter, plankters, plankton, planktonic, planktons, zooplankter, zooplankters, zooplankton, zooplanktonic, zooplanktons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lahn, laik, lak, lanc, lanj, lanka, Lanks, lanny, Lano, lant, lanu, lanx, Lauko, lenk, Lesnik, lijk, likn, linc, linka, lnk, lonc, Lonik, lonk, Lonka, lunc, Lunik, Lunk, lynk, nank. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lank" (pronounced la"ngk)
4	l a" ng k	blank, clank, flank, plank.
3	-a" ng k	antitank, bank, brank, crank, dank, drank, franc, Frank, Hank, interbank, nonbank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-k-l-n"
	-2 letters: al, an, ka, la, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-k-l-n"
	+1 letter: ankle, blank, clank, flank, lanky, plank, slank.
	+2 letters: alkane, alkene, alkine, alkyne, ankled, ankles, anklet, blanks, calkin, clanks, dankly, flanks, kalian, kalong, kaolin, klaxon, knawel, laking, lanker, lankly, malkin, planks, rankle, rankly.
	+3 letters: alkalin, alkanes, alkanet, alkenes, alkines, alkynes, anklets, ankling, antlike, balking, blacken, blanked, blanker, blanket, blankly, calking, calkins, clanked, crankle, crankly, fanlike, flaking, flanked, flanken, flanker, frankly, kalends, kalians, kalongs, kantele, kaoline, kaolins, klavern, klaxons, knawels, lacking, ladykin, lakings, lambkin, lankest, lankier, lankily, larking, leaking, linkage, linkman, malkins, manlike, milkman, nakedly, planked, rankled, rankles, slacken, slaking, snakily, talking, tankful, unalike, uncloak, walking.
	+4 letters: alkaline, alkanets, ankylose, antileak, antilock, auntlike, backland, balkline, bankable, bankerly, bankroll, barnlike, baulking, beanlike, blackens, blackfin, blacking, blankest, blankets, blanking, blinkard, cackling, calfskin, caulking, chalking, clacking, clanking, claybank, cloaking, cracknel, crankily, crankled, crankles, darkling, dawnlike, dockland, fanglike, faunlike, fawnlike, flacking, flankens, flankers, flanking, franklin, gnatlike, hackling, handlike, kallidin, kanteles, kaoliang, kaolines, kaolinic, kephalin, klaverns, knowable, kraaling, ladykins, lambkins, lambskin, landmark, landskip, lankiest, lankness, larrikin, linkable, linkages, linksman, lunkhead, mackling, moonwalk, necklace, nonblack, novalike, outflank, parkland, planking, plankter, plankton, polkaing, rankling, sandlike, sealskin, sinkable, skiplane, skoaling, slackens, slacking, snaglike, sneakily, stalking, swankily, swanlike, tackling, takingly, talcking, talkings, tankfuls, tanklike, thankful, uncloaks, unslaked, walkings, weakling.
	+5 letters: alikeness, anklebone, ankylosed, ankyloses, ankylosis, ankylotic, antiblack, backlands, balkanize, balkiness, balklines, bankrolls, beanstalk, blackened, blackener, blackfins, blackings, blackland, blackness, blanketed, blankness, bleakness, blinkards, calfskins, caulkings, claybanks, cornstalk, crackling, cracknels, crankling, docklands, drinkable, flakiness, frankable, franklins, gangplank, gavelkind, giantlike, grimalkin, humanlike, kalanchoe, kallidins, kaoliangs, kaolinite, kephalins, knavishly, kneadable, kundalini, lackering, lackeying, lakefront, lambskins, landmarks, landskips, lankiness, larkiness, larrikins, lawmaking, leakiness, lunkheads, molluskan, moonwalks, multibank, necklaces, nonblacks, outflanks, parklands, plankings, plankters, planktons, plantlike, rackingly, saintlike, sealskins, shackling, silkaline, skiplanes, slackened, slackness, snaillike, snakelike, snowflake, solonchak, spackling, sparkling, tacklings, talkathon, talkiness, thankless, thinkable, thinkably, uncloaked, unlikable, unshackle, unwarlike, walkathon, weaklings, womanlike, workmanly.
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