meese
/miːs/
"meese" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meese” is uncommon English (frequency #76,117 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,117
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of moose
Corpus desk
Index EN-meese · meese · English
meese · rank #76,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,117
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH membranous
Nearest frequency peer: membranous (+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 “meese”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McEntire
McEntire
23,888 corpus weight
- meese
meese
23,884 corpus weight
- membranous
membranous
23,883 corpus weight
- menses
menses
23,882 corpus weight
- mesenteric
mesenteric
23,881 corpus weight
- mesoderm
mesoderm
23,880 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meese” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meese |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /miːs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meese” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meese is uncommon English at frequency #76,117 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /miːs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of moose".
Zero misspellings are on record for meese in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Pluralization of moose on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth, foot → feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed shoop → sheep. The correct English form is meese, spelled M-E-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1plural of moose
Etymology
Pluralization of moose on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth, foot → feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed shoop → sheep.
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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