mahone
"mahone" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mahone” is uncommon English (frequency #50,056 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,056
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large Turkish warship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mahone · mahone · English
mahone · rank #50,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,056
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Magyar
Nearest frequency peer: Magyar (-1 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.
Long-tail ranks near “mahone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- looker
looker
49,949 corpus weight
- Magyar
Magyar
49,946 corpus weight
- mahone
mahone
49,945 corpus weight
- malady
malady
49,944 corpus weight
- Mantua
Mantua
49,942 corpus weight
- Marche
Marche
49,941 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mahone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mahone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mahone is uncommon English at frequency #50,056 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large Turkish warship.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mahone, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French mahonne, mahomme. The correct English form is mahone, spelled M-A-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A large Turkish warship.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mahone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In this Charge one of the Turks Mahones was sunk , and two disabled
Etymology
From Middle French mahonne, mahomme.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).