ukelele
[ukeˈlele]
The verdict
“ukelele” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,599 among 4,148 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,599
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,148
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrumento de cuerdas pulsadas, tradicional de las islas Hawai. Es un pariente cercano del cavaquinho portugués, del que en realidad es una adaptación hawaiana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ukelele |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ukeˈlele] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ukelele” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ukelele is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,599 among 4,148 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ukeˈlele]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrumento de cuerdas pulsadas, tradicional de las islas Hawai. Es un pariente cercano del cavaquinho portugués, del que en realidad es una adaptación hawaiana.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ukelele in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ukelele, spelled U-K-E-L-E-L-E.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de cuerdas pulsadas, tradicional de las islas Hawai. Es un pariente cercano del cavaquinho portugués, del que en realidad es una adaptación hawaiana.
This word in other languages
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 “ukelele”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is U-K-E-L-E-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ukeˈlele] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.