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uck

/ʌk/interjection, noun

uck is spelled U-C-K: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, uck means “Alternative form of yuck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in uck?

Letters3: U-C-K
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 85,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is uck?

Uck appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce uck?

  • /ʌk/

As a noun (“Alternative form of suck (in the particular sense of…”): /ʔʌk/, /ʌk/.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-uck.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with uck

Also written: suck, yuck.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What does uck mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

interjection

  1. 1

    Alternative form of yuck.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of suck (in the particular sense of fellatio)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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