mealtime
"mealtime" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mealtime” is uncommon English (frequency #66,081 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,081
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mealtime · mealtime · English
mealtime · rank #66,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,081
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH meany
Nearest frequency peer: meany (+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 “mealtime”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- McClean
McClean
33,926 corpus weight
- McColl
McColl
33,925 corpus weight
- mealtime
mealtime
33,920 corpus weight
- meany
meany
33,919 corpus weight
- meathead
meathead
33,918 corpus weight
- meningococc…
meningococcal
33,914 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mealtime” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mealtime |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mealtime” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mealtime is uncommon English at frequency #66,081 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mealtime in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English meeltime, from Old English mǣltīma (“mealtime”), equivalent to meal + time. Compare mealtide, Old English mǣltīd (“mealtime”), Dutch maaltijd (“meal”), German Mahlzeit (“meal, mealtime”), Danish måltid (“meal, mealtime”), Icelandic máltí… The correct English form is mealtime, spelled M-E-A-L-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten.
Etymology
From Middle English meeltime, from Old English mǣltīma (“mealtime”), equivalent to meal + time. Compare mealtide, Old English mǣltīd (“mealtime”), Dutch maaltijd (“meal”), German Mahlzeit (“meal, mealtime”), Danish måltid (“meal, mealtime”), Icelandic máltíð (“meal”), Icelandic matmálstími (“mealtime”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 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.