Yousef
"yousef" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yousef” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,025
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Arabic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yousef · Yousef · English
Yousef · rank #44,025 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yuna
Nearest frequency peer: Yuna (+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 “Yousef”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Whipple
Whipple
55,983 corpus weight
- WIC
WIC
55,982 corpus weight
- wrangling
wrangling
55,981 corpus weight
- Yellen
Yellen
55,978 corpus weight
- Yousef
Yousef
55,976 corpus weight
- Yuna
Yuna
55,975 corpus weight
What this shows “Yousef” 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 | Yousef |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Yousef”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Yousef, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,025 among 366 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yousef, with forms such as "oyusef", "yosuef", and "youesf". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Yusuf", "Youssef", "yous", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), equivalent to English Joseph. The correct English form is Yousef, spelled Y-O-U-S-E-F.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Arabic.
- 2A surname from Arabic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yousef appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abdul Basit’s life as one of America’s most-wanted men came to an end almost as suddenly as it began. His alleged co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing had implicated “Ramzi Yousef” when they were arrested, and the F.B.I. had on several occasions laid elaborate plans to capture him in Pakistan, but each time he had been alerted and had disappe…
The attacks were carried out by a terrorist group which included Ramzi Yousef, who in 1998 received two life sentences plus 240 years for his part in the bombings, as well as a number of other attacks or planned attacks including a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), equivalent to English Joseph.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyusef
- yosuef
- youesf
- youseff
- yousfe
- yuosef
- yyousef
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yousef - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Yousef", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).