uke
/juːk/
"uke" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uke” is uncommon English (frequency #52,691 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,691
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of ukulele.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uke · uke · English
uke · rank #52,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,691
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH turpin
Nearest frequency peer: turpin (-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 “uke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tso
Tso
47,314 corpus weight
- Tubbs
Tubbs
47,313 corpus weight
- turpin
turpin
47,311 corpus weight
- uke
uke
47,310 corpus weight
- unbuttoned
unbuttoned
47,309 corpus weight
- uneasiness
uneasiness
47,306 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “uke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /juːk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #52,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “uke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
uke is uncommon English at frequency #52,691 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /juːk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clipping of ukulele.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for uke, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is uke, spelled U-K-E.
Definition
- 1Clipping of ukulele.
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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