maddock
/ˈmædək/
"maddock" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maddock” is uncommon English (frequency #90,687 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,687
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An earthworm or maggot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maddock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmædək/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maddock” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
maddock is uncommon English at frequency #90,687 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmædək/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An earthworm or maggot.".
Zero misspellings are on record for maddock in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English maddok, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish maddike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa), equivalen… The correct English form is maddock, spelled M-A-D-D-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1An earthworm or maggot.
Etymology
From Middle English maddok, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish maddike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa), equivalent to made (“maggot”) + -ock.
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 “maddock”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-A-D-D-O-C-K - 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.