egg yolk
"egg-yolk" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“egg yolk” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egg yolk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “egg yolk” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for egg yolk is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for egg yolk, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English egyolk, egge yolk, equivalent to egg + yolk. Compare Dutch eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Low German Eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Eigelb (“egg yolk”), Swedish äggula (“egg yolk”). The correct English form is egg yolk, spelled E-G-G- -Y-O-L-K.
Definition
- 1The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
Etymology
From Middle English egyolk, egge yolk, equivalent to egg + yolk. Compare Dutch eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Low German Eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Eigelb (“egg yolk”), Swedish äggula (“egg yolk”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “egg yolk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-G-G- -Y-O-L-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.