uranium
/jʊˈɹeɪniəm/
"uranium" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uranium” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,002
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uranium · uranium · English
uranium · rank #9,002 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,002
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH undertaken
Nearest frequency peer: undertaken (-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 “uranium”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- UFC
UFC
91,002 corpus weight
- undergradua…
undergraduate
91,001 corpus weight
- undertaken
undertaken
91,000 corpus weight
- uranium
uranium
90,999 corpus weight
- utter
utter
90,998 corpus weight
- Vietnamese
Vietnamese
90,997 corpus weight
What this shows “uranium” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | uranium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jʊˈɹeɪniəm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “uranium”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around uranium (IPA /jʊˈɹeɪniəm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,002 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for uranium, with forms such as "ruanium", "uarnium", and "urainum". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Uranus", "urbanism", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: After Uranus (the planet), + -ium. The correct English form is uranium, spelled U-R-A-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uranium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades.
Etymology
After Uranus (the planet), + -ium.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ruanium
- uarnium
- urainum
- uranimu
- uraniumm
- urannium
- uranuim
- urnaium
- urranium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of uranium - 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 "uranium", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).