Ulm
/ʊlm/
"ulm" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ulm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,235) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,235
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city on the River Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ulm · Ulm · English
Ulm · rank #46,235 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,235
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unconvinced
Nearest frequency peer: unconvinced (+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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Ulm”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Tutsi
Tutsi
53,771 corpus weight
- Ulm
Ulm
53,766 corpus weight
- unconvinced
unconvinced
53,764 corpus weight
- underclass
underclass
53,763 corpus weight
- underhill
underhill
53,762 corpus weight
- undertone
undertone
53,761 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Ulm” 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 | Ulm |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ʊlm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Ulm”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ulm is neighbouring look-alikes ("up", "us", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /ʊlm/. Frequency #46,235 among 1,433 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ulm, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "up", "us", "um", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Ulm, spelled U-L-M.
Definition
- 1A city on the River Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- 2A town in Prairie County, Arkansas, United States.
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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