Mabey
"mabey" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mabey” is uncommon English (frequency #92,830 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,830
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A surname from Middle English.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mabey · Mabey · English
Mabey · rank #92,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,830
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH majolica
Nearest frequency peer: majolica (+6 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mabey”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lumb
lumb
7,179 corpus weight
- Luoyang
Luoyang
7,178 corpus weight
- Mabey
Mabey
7,171 corpus weight
- majolica
majolica
7,165 corpus weight
- majoritarian
majoritarian
7,164 corpus weight
- maladminist…
maladministration
7,163 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mabey” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| 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
Rare enough to double-check
Mabey is uncommon English at frequency #92,830 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.