mashing
"mashing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mashing” is uncommon English (frequency #53,093 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,093
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mashing · mashing · English
mashing · rank #53,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH matey
Nearest frequency peer: matey (+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 “mashing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mange
mange
46,914 corpus weight
- Mansell
Mansell
46,913 corpus weight
- Marca
Marca
46,912 corpus weight
- mariposa
mariposa
46,910 corpus weight
- mashing
mashing
46,908 corpus weight
- matey
matey
46,907 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mashing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mashing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mashing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mashing is uncommon English at frequency #53,093 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
mashing has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is mashing, spelled M-A-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
- 2The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
- 3The process of preparing tea in a teapot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mashing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the culinary process, there are none of those peelings and washings as in the case of potatoes and turnips, […] none of those squeezings and mashings and choppings, before the worthless mess can be got upon the table.
More hot water is added, and the mashing process repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, four mashings[…]
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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