yuk
/jʌk/
"yuk" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yuk” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,484) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,484
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An exuberant laugh.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yuk · yuk · English
yuk · rank #41,484 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,484
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH you's
Nearest frequency peer: you's (-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 “yuk”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- WPA
WPA
58,522 corpus weight
- Yeezy
Yeezy
58,520 corpus weight
- yeoman
yeoman
58,519 corpus weight
- you's
you's
58,518 corpus weight
- yuk
yuk
58,517 corpus weight
- Yule
Yule
58,516 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “yuk” 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 | yuk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /jʌk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “yuk”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yuk is neighbouring look-alikes ("yup", "yum", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /jʌk/. Frequency #41,484 among 366 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "An exuberant laugh.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yuk in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yup", "yum", "Yun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Imitative, similar to the variant yuck. The correct English form is yuk, spelled Y-U-K.
Definition
- 1An exuberant laugh.
Etymology
Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.
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).