yucky
/ˈjʌkɪ/
"yucky" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yucky” is uncommon English (frequency #54,581 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,581
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yucky · yucky · English
yucky · rank #54,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,581
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH zacks
Nearest frequency peer: zacks (+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 “yucky”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wriggling
wriggling
45,424 corpus weight
- Yeong
Yeong
45,423 corpus weight
- yessir
yessir
45,422 corpus weight
- yucky
yucky
45,420 corpus weight
- zacks
zacks
45,419 corpus weight
- zahir
zahir
45,417 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yucky” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yucky |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈjʌkɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yucky” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yucky is uncommon English at frequency #54,581 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈjʌkɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.".
Zero misspellings are on record for yucky in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”). The correct English form is yucky, spelled Y-U-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yucky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The food that I ate today was very yucky.
"Don't rule out desalination because it is expensive, or recycling because it sounds yucky, or building a dam," Mr Turnbull told Australian media."
Etymology
From yuck + -y. Compare Old English ġyċċiġ (“putrid”).
Antonyms
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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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