uta
"uta" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uta” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,476) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,476
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A kind of Japanese poem.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uta · uta · English
uta · rank #42,476 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,476
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH Urquhart
Nearest frequency peer: Urquhart (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “uta”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- unsurprising
unsurprising
57,528 corpus weight
- uppers
uppers
57,527 corpus weight
- Urquhart
Urquhart
57,526 corpus weight
- uta
uta
57,525 corpus weight
- uttering
uttering
57,524 corpus weight
- velvety
velvety
57,522 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “uta” 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 | uta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “uta”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uta is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "UW", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #42,476 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Gloss: "A kind of Japanese poem.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for uta in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "UW", "UU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese うた. The correct English form is uta, spelled U-T-A.
Definition
- 1A kind of Japanese poem.
Etymology
From Japanese うた.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).