uke
[ˈuke]
The verdict
“uke” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #85,347 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #85,347
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Compañero de entrenamiento el cual recibe la técnica que debe ejecutar quien la está practicando.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uke |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuke] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “uke” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for uke is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuke]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,347 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Compañero de entrenamiento el cual recibe la técnica que debe ejecutar quien la está practicando.".
uke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is uke, spelled U-K-E.
Definition
- 1Compañero de entrenamiento el cual recibe la técnica que debe ejecutar quien la está practicando.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “uke”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is U-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈuke] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.