drag through the mud
"drag-through-the-mud" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drag through the mud” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drag through the mud |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drag through the mud” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
drag through the mud is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable.".
drag through the mud has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is drag through the mud, spelled D-R-A-G- -T-H-R-O-U-G-H- -T-H-E- -M-U-D.
Definition
- 1To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is D-R-A-G- -T-H-R-O-U-G-H- -T-H-E- -M-U-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.