mashing
"mashing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mashing” is uncommon English (frequency #53,093 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,093
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
| 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) |
Where “mashing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mashing is uncommon English at frequency #53,093 among 36,575 “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.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-S-H-I-N-G - 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.