yuca
[ˈʝuka]
The verdict
“yuca” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,320
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 177
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Manihot esculenta) Arbusto de la familia de las euforbiáceas, que alcanza los dos m de altura. perenne, autóctona y extensamente cultivada en Sudamérica y el Pacífico por su raíz almidonosa de alt...
Corpus desk
Index ES-yuca · yuca · Spanish
yuca · rank #17,320 · 5 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,320
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 177
- PHOTO-FINISH zanahoria
Nearest frequency peer: zanahoria (+1 rank slots)
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 neighbourhood for “yuca”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- viniera
viniera
82,685 corpus weight
- yuca
yuca
82,681 corpus weight
- zanahoria
zanahoria
82,680 corpus weight
- zinc
zinc
82,679 corpus weight
- éxtasis
éxtasis
82,678 corpus weight
- aburridos
aburridos
82,677 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yuca” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | yuca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʝuka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “yuca” en la frecuencia del español
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around yuca (IPA [ˈʝuka]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,320 among 177 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for yuca, with forms such as "uyca", "ycua", and "yuac". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "yun", "Yuri", "yugo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is yuca, spelled Y-U-C-A.
Definition
- 1(Manihot esculenta) Arbusto de la familia de las euforbiáceas, que alcanza los dos m de altura. perenne, autóctona y extensamente cultivada en Sudamérica y el Pacífico por su raíz almidonosa de alto valor alimentario. La yuca es endémica de la región subtropical y tropical de Argentina y Paraguay, y de la región tropical de Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá, Perú y Venezuela, aunque se estima que las variedades hoy conocidas son efecto de la selección artificial. Hay una variedad inofensiva que se puede comer con confianza y otra que es tóxica (en Venezuela se le llama "yuca brava" o "yuca amarga").
- 2Raíz tuberosa de la yuca₁. Se consume cocida y es parte de la gastronomía de múltiples países.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uyca
- ycua
- yuac
- yucca
- yyuca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yuca - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yuca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "yuca" maps to 13 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "yun". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,320 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Spanish words in the "Y" letter cohort. Y–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.