mendicant
/ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/
"mendicant" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mendicant” is uncommon English (frequency #76,984 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,984
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Depending on alms for a living.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mendicant · mendicant · English
mendicant · rank #76,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,984
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mendota
Nearest frequency peer: Mendota (+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 “mendicant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mechatronics
mechatronics
23,020 corpus weight
- medullary
medullary
23,019 corpus weight
- mendicant
mendicant
23,017 corpus weight
- Mendota
Mendota
23,016 corpus weight
- merengue
merengue
23,015 corpus weight
- Michoacán
Michoacán
23,014 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mendicant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mendicant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mendicant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mendicant is uncommon English at frequency #76,984 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmɛn.dɪ.kənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mendicant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mendicant, from Latin mendīcāns, present participle of mendīcō (“beg”). Compare French mendiant. The correct English form is mendicant, spelled M-E-N-D-I-C-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Depending on alms for a living.
- 2Of or pertaining to a beggar.
- 3Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
Etymology
From Middle English mendicant, from Latin mendīcāns, present participle of mendīcō (“beg”). Compare French mendiant.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).