meanie
/ˈmiːni/
"meanie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meanie” is uncommon English (frequency #54,933 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,933
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meanie · meanie · English
meanie · rank #54,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,933
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McWilliams
Nearest frequency peer: McWilliams (-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 “meanie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McGinty
McGinty
45,072 corpus weight
- McWilliams
McWilliams
45,069 corpus weight
- meanie
meanie
45,068 corpus weight
- meanness
meanness
45,067 corpus weight
- melding
melding
45,066 corpus weight
- mellowed
mellowed
45,065 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meanie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meanie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmiːni/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meanie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meanie is uncommon English at frequency #54,933 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmiːni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
meanie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mean + -ie. The correct English form is meanie, spelled M-E-A-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.
- 2A villain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meanie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Teacher kept me in after school again. What a meanie!
That meanie wouldn't even lend me the bus fare.
Etymology
From mean + -ie.
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.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).