meatball
"meatball" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meatball” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #34,190 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #34,190
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meatball |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meatball” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for meatball is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #34,190 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for meatball, with forms such as "ematball", "maetball", and "meabtall". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From meat + ball. The correct English form is meatball, spelled M-E-A-T-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
- 2A stupid person; a meathead.
- 3An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.
- 4An optical landing system.
- 5A menu icon of three horizontal dots.
- 6Ellipsis of meatball flag.
Etymology
From meat + ball.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ematball,maetball,meabtall,meatabll,meatbal,meatbball,meatblal,meattball,metaball,mmeatball
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meatball - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “meatball”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-A-T-B-A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.