Uygur
"uygur" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Uygur” is uncommon English (frequency #92,203 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,203
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of Uyghur.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uygur · Uygur · English
Uygur · rank #92,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,203
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH urologic
Nearest frequency peer: urologic (-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 “Uygur”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unseasoned
unseasoned
7,803 corpus weight
- urologic
urologic
7,799 corpus weight
- Uygur
Uygur
7,798 corpus weight
- vaginally
vaginally
7,796 corpus weight
- Valbuena
Valbuena
7,795 corpus weight
- Valencian
Valencian
7,794 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Uygur” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Uygur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Uygur” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Uygur is uncommon English at frequency #92,203 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of Uyghur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Uygur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Uygur, spelled U-Y-G-U-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of Uyghur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Uygur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He recalled that the big hill which served as their backdrop—the one that was always there despite the changing dunes—was known as Mazhatage, which was the Uygur word for “tomb.”
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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