meikle
"meikle" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meikle” is uncommon English (frequency #79,751 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,751
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of mickle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meikle · meikle · English
meikle · rank #79,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,751
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Melnyk
Nearest frequency peer: Melnyk (+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 “meikle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- meddlesome
meddlesome
20,254 corpus weight
- meikle
meikle
20,250 corpus weight
- Melnyk
Melnyk
20,249 corpus weight
- mercantilism
mercantilism
20,248 corpus weight
- meself
meself
20,247 corpus weight
- microvascul…
microvascular
20,245 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meikle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meikle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meikle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meikle is uncommon English at frequency #79,751 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of mickle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for meikle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is meikle, spelled M-E-I-K-L-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of mickle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meikle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the Den of Kinraddie one such beast had its lair […] and at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a meikle cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a fir tree, watching.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).