mazza
"mazza" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mazza” is uncommon English (frequency #82,525 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,525
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mazza · mazza · English
mazza · rank #82,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,525
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maza
Nearest frequency peer: maza (-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 “mazza”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Maynooth
Maynooth
17,478 corpus weight
- maza
maza
17,477 corpus weight
- mazza
mazza
17,476 corpus weight
- McCaffery
McCaffery
17,475 corpus weight
- McMinnville
McMinnville
17,474 corpus weight
- McNeese
McNeese
17,473 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mazza” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mazza |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mazza” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mazza is uncommon English at frequency #82,525 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mazza in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is mazza, spelled M-A-Z-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mazza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Must have thought I was one of the paigons / Left a trace and my yard got raided / It's a mazza / He was talking tough 'till I chased man down with a ladder
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).