yummy
/ˈjʌm.i/
"yummy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yummy” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,255
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Delicious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yummy · yummy · English
yummy · rank #14,255 · 6 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yah
Nearest frequency peer: yah (-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 “yummy”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- weaving
weaving
85,750 corpus weight
- welding
welding
85,749 corpus weight
- whereabouts
whereabouts
85,748 corpus weight
- yah
yah
85,747 corpus weight
- yummy
yummy
85,746 corpus weight
- Zeus
Zeus
85,745 corpus weight
What this shows “yummy” 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 | yummy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈjʌm.i/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “yummy”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around yummy (IPA /ˈjʌm.i/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,255 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Delicious.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for yummy, with forms such as "uymmy", "ymumy", and "yummyy". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "yum", "yumi", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From yum + -y. The correct English form is yummy, spelled Y-U-M-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Delicious.
Etymology
From yum + -y.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uymmy
- ymumy
- yummyy
- yumy
- yumym
- yyummy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yummy - 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 "yummy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).