ulama
"ulama" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ulama” is uncommon English (frequency #71,192 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,192
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ulama · ulama · English
ulama · rank #71,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,192
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unders
Nearest frequency peer: unders (+2 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 “ulama”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- turney
turney
28,814 corpus weight
- tush
tush
28,813 corpus weight
- ulama
ulama
28,809 corpus weight
- unders
unders
28,807 corpus weight
- underwire
underwire
28,806 corpus weight
- undiminished
undiminished
28,805 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ulama” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ulama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ulama” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ulama is uncommon English at frequency #71,192 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ulama in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl ōllamaliztli. Doublet of ullamaliztli. The correct English form is ulama, spelled U-L-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.
Etymology
Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl ōllamaliztli. Doublet of ullamaliztli.
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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