Mabey
"mabey" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mabey” is an uncommon English word, ranked #92,830 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #92,830
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Middle English.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mabey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mabey” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Mabey is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #92,830 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A surname from Middle English.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mabey in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain: it could be from a hypocoristic form of the Middle English female personal name Mabbe, or alternatively a variant of Mowbray. The correct English form is Mabey, spelled M-A-B-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Middle English.
Etymology
Uncertain: it could be from a hypocoristic form of the Middle English female personal name Mabbe, or alternatively a variant of Mowbray.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Mabey”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-B-E-Y - 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.