nuk
"nuk" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nuk” is uncommon English (frequency #88,664 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,664
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nuk · nuk · English
nuk · rank #88,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,664
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nureyev
Nearest frequency peer: Nureyev (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “nuk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- NoHo
NoHo
11,345 corpus weight
- normale
normale
11,343 corpus weight
- Norn
Norn
11,342 corpus weight
- nuk
nuk
11,337 corpus weight
- Nureyev
Nureyev
11,336 corpus weight
- occultation
occultation
11,331 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nuk” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #88,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nuk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nuk is uncommon English at frequency #88,664 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.".
nuk has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Onomatopoeic. The correct English form is nuk, spelled N-U-K.
Definition
- 1The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).