Ulric
/ʊl.ɹɪk/
"ulric" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ulric” is uncommon English (frequency #88,965 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,965
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ulric · Ulric · English
Ulric · rank #88,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,965
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH ulu
Nearest frequency peer: ulu (+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 “Ulric”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tyreese
Tyreese
11,040 corpus weight
- Ulric
Ulric
11,036 corpus weight
- ulu
ulu
11,035 corpus weight
- unalterable
unalterable
11,034 corpus weight
- uncirculated
uncirculated
11,033 corpus weight
- undelivered
undelivered
11,032 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ulric” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ulric |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ʊl.ɹɪk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ulric” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ulric is uncommon English at frequency #88,965 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ʊl.ɹɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from the Germanic languages.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Ulric in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old High German uodil (“heritage, homestead”) + rihhi (“ruler”); compare German Ulrich. English sources also suggest Old English wulf (“wolf”) + ric (“ruler”). The correct English form is Ulric, spelled U-L-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Etymology
From Old High German uodil (“heritage, homestead”) + rihhi (“ruler”); compare German Ulrich. English sources also suggest Old English wulf (“wolf”) + ric (“ruler”).
This word in other languages
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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