McMuffin
"mcmuffin" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“McMuffin” is uncommon English (frequency #87,543 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,543
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of breakfast sandwich sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's that typically consists of a slice of Canadian bacon, a griddle-fried egg, and a slice of American chees...
Corpus desk
Index EN-mcmuffin · McMuffin · English
McMuffin · rank #87,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,543
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McLendon
Nearest frequency peer: McLendon (-1 rank slots)
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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 “McMuffin”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- McKenney
McKenney
12,462 corpus weight
- McLaurin
McLaurin
12,461 corpus weight
- McLendon
McLendon
12,459 corpus weight
- McMuffin
McMuffin
12,458 corpus weight
- McRoberts
McRoberts
12,457 corpus weight
- meadowlark
meadowlark
12,456 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “McMuffin” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McMuffin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “McMuffin” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
McMuffin is uncommon English at frequency #87,543 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of breakfast sandwich sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's that typically consists of a slice of Canadian bacon, a griddle-fried egg, and a slice of American chees...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for McMuffin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mc- + muffin, coined as a trademark, McMuffin, in 1972. The correct English form is McMuffin, spelled M-C-M-U-F-F-I-N.
Definition
- 1A type of breakfast sandwich sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's that typically consists of a slice of Canadian bacon, a griddle-fried egg, and a slice of American cheese on a toasted and buttered English muffin.
Etymology
From Mc- + muffin, coined as a trademark, McMuffin, in 1972.
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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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.