English homophones
yuck/yuk
"yuck" (#27,037 written frequency) beats "yuk" (#41,484) in this 2-word /jʌk/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /jʌk/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "yuck" leads at #27,037, with "yuk" trailing at #41,484.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "yu" then splits - "yuck" (4 letters) vs "yuk" (3).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across yuck, yuk: kuy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
yuck
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVCC
Inventory ckuy · private c
yuk
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VVC
Inventory kuy · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "yuck" when you mean: Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
- Write "yuk" when you mean: An exuberant laugh.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- yuck ← uyck · ycuk · yucck · yuckk · yukc · yyuck
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (yuck, yuk). Here's where to go from here.
- "yuck" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #27,037 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: Yates · Yeats. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "yuck, yuk" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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