ugliest
"ugliest" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ugliest” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,870
- frequency rank, English
- 23,789
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - superlative form of ugly: most ugly
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 | ugliest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ugliest” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ugliest, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,870 among 23,789 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "superlative form of ugly: most ugly".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ugliest, with forms such as "guliest", "uggliest", and "ugilest". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ugliness", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ugliest, spelled U-G-L-I-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of ugly: most ugly
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: guliest,uggliest,ugilest,ugleist,ugliesst,ugliestt,ugliets,ugliset,uglliest,ulgiest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ugliest - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “ugliest”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is U-G-L-I-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ugliness” - see the side-by-side comparison. ugliest vs ugliness
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.