common as muck
"common-as-muck" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“common as muck” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very common (in various senses).
Corpus desk
Index EN-common-as-muck · common as muck · English
common as muck · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | common as muck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “common as muck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
common as muck is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Very common (in various senses).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for common as muck, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is common as muck, spelled C-O-M-M-O-N- -A-S- -M-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Very common (in various senses).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how common as muck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How many times have you heard a young mother roll her eyes up to heaven at the sound of another mum calling out the name of her child, only to realize that the name she picked is now common as muck?
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.