Shrek
/ʃɹɛk/
"shrek" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shrek” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,496
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An extremely ugly person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shrek · Shrek · English
Shrek · rank #20,496 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,496
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shipyard
Nearest frequency peer: shipyard (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Shrek”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sharpe
sharpe
79,507 corpus weight
- shipyard
shipyard
79,506 corpus weight
- Shrek
Shrek
79,505 corpus weight
- sig
sig
79,504 corpus weight
- silica
silica
79,503 corpus weight
- simmer
simmer
79,502 corpus weight
What this shows “Shrek” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | Shrek |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɹɛk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Shrek”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Shrek (IPA /ʃɹɛk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,496 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An extremely ugly person.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shrek, with forms such as "hsrek", "sherk", and "shhrek". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sure", "sore", "Shri", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the fictional ogre Shrek, created by the American author William Steig for his 1990 picture book Shrek! and popularized by the DreamWorks computer-animated movie franchise, whose name derives from Yiddish שרעק (shrek, “fright”). The correct English form is Shrek, spelled S-H-R-E-K.
Definition
- 1An extremely ugly person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Shrek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Well, well, well, who have we got here? 'A very fat Shrek suddenly loomed up on them. 'Your host at your service,' he said, with a little bow.
'I don't want my sister to see you look like a mess, like an ugly Shrek.'
Etymology
From the fictional ogre Shrek, created by the American author William Steig for his 1990 picture book Shrek! and popularized by the DreamWorks computer-animated movie franchise, whose name derives from Yiddish שרעק (shrek, “fright”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsrek
- sherk
- shhrek
- shrekk
- shrke
- shrrek
- srhek
- sshrek
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Shrek - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Shrek", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).