yuck
/jʌk/
"yuck" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yuck” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,037
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yuck · yuck · English
yuck · rank #27,037 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,037
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yakuza
Nearest frequency peer: yakuza (-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 “yuck”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- worsen
worsen
72,969 corpus weight
- xenophobia
xenophobia
72,967 corpus weight
- xenophobic
xenophobic
72,966 corpus weight
- yakuza
yakuza
72,965 corpus weight
- yuck
yuck
72,964 corpus weight
- ze
ze
72,963 corpus weight
What this shows “yuck” 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 | yuck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /jʌk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “yuck”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around yuck (IPA /jʌk/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #27,037 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for yuck, with forms such as "uyck", "ycuk", and "yucck". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yup", "yum", "Yun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) . The correct English form is yuck, spelled Y-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yuck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
Etymology
Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uyck
- ycuk
- yucck
- yuckk
- yukc
- yyuck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yuck - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "yuck", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).