ugly
[ʌɡli]
The verdict
“ugly” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,317
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unangenehm für das Auge; nicht ästhetisch ansprechend
Corpus desk
Index DE-ugly · ugly · German
ugly · rank #49,317 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,317
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Turmes
Nearest frequency peer: Turmes (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „ugly“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- trostlos
trostlos
50,687 corpus weight
- Trucker
Trucker
50,686 corpus weight
- Turmes
Turmes
50,685 corpus weight
- ugly
ugly
50,684 corpus weight
- Umerziehung
Umerziehung
50,683 corpus weight
- Umkleidekab…
Umkleidekabine
50,682 corpus weight
What this shows „ugly“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | ugly |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʌɡli] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „ugly“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ugly (IPA [ʌɡli]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,317 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ugly, with forms such as "guly", "uggly", and "uglly". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Ulm", "URL", "Ulf", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ugly, spelled U-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1unangenehm für das Auge; nicht ästhetisch ansprechend
- 2unangenehm für das Ohr oder einem anderen Sinn
- 3seine Gefühle oder die guten Sitten beleidigend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ugly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She wears an ugly dress.
This is a piteous and ugly concert.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- guly
- uggly
- uglly
- uglyy
- ugyl
- ulgy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ugly - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ugly", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).