UHF
"uhf" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“UHF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,142) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,142
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Ultra High Frequency.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uhf · UHF · English
UHF · rank #39,142 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,142
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH typhus
Nearest frequency peer: typhus (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “UHF”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- tutelage
tutelage
60,862 corpus weight
- twos
twos
60,861 corpus weight
- typhus
typhus
60,860 corpus weight
- UHF
UHF
60,859 corpus weight
- unaffiliated
unaffiliated
60,858 corpus weight
- unconsciona…
unconscionable
60,857 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “UHF” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | UHF |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “UHF”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UHF is neighbouring look-alikes ("up", "us", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #39,142 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of Ultra High Frequency.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for UHF in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "up", "us", "UK", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is UHF, spelled U-H-F.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Ultra High Frequency.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).