mayoralty
/meɪˈɔː.ɹəl.ti/
"mayoralty" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mayoralty” is uncommon English (frequency #66,072 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,072
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mayoralty · mayoralty · English
mayoralty · rank #66,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,072
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH masc
Nearest frequency peer: masc (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mayoralty”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Maratha
Maratha
33,933 corpus weight
- masc
masc
33,930 corpus weight
- mayoralty
mayoralty
33,929 corpus weight
- McBain
McBain
33,927 corpus weight
- McClean
McClean
33,926 corpus weight
- McColl
McColl
33,925 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mayoralty” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mayoralty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /meɪˈɔː.ɹəl.ti/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mayoralty” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mayoralty is uncommon English at frequency #66,072 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /meɪˈɔː.ɹəl.ti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mayoralty, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mairaltee, from Middle French mairalté. The correct English form is mayoralty, spelled M-A-Y-O-R-A-L-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.
Etymology
From Middle English mairaltee, from Middle French mairalté.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 May 6, 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 9 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.