ulcerative
"ulcerative" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ulcerative” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,139
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composed of, or causing ulcers
Corpus desk
Index EN-ulcerative · ulcerative · English
ulcerative · rank #45,139 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,139
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH tugged
Nearest frequency peer: tugged (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “ulcerative”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tuber
tuber
54,864 corpus weight
- tugged
tugged
54,863 corpus weight
- ulcerative
ulcerative
54,862 corpus weight
- unabridged
unabridged
54,861 corpus weight
- unbearably
unbearably
54,860 corpus weight
- underwriter
underwriter
54,859 corpus weight
What this shows “ulcerative” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ulcerative |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ulcerative”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ulcerative, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,139 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composed of, or causing ulcers".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ulcerative, with forms such as "lucerative", "uclerative", and "ulccerative". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ulcerate + -ive. The correct English form is ulcerative, spelled U-L-C-E-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Composed of, or causing ulcers
Etymology
From ulcerate + -ive.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lucerative
- uclerative
- ulccerative
- ulceartive
- ulceraitve
- ulceratiev
- ulcerativve
- ulcerattive
- ulceratvie
- ulcerrative
- ulcertaive
- ulcreative
- ulecrative
- ullcerative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ulcerative - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ulcerative", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).