Mendota
"mendota" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mendota” is uncommon English (frequency #76,985 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,985
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A number of places in the United States:
Corpus desk
Index EN-mendota · Mendota · English
Mendota · rank #76,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,985
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH mendicant
Nearest frequency peer: mendicant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mendota”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- microenviro…
microenvironment
23,013 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mendota” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mendota |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mendota” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mendota is uncommon English at frequency #76,985 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Mendota has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dakota bdóte (“mouth or junction of one river with another”). The correct English form is Mendota, spelled M-E-N-D-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1A number of places in the United States:
- 2A number of places in the United States:
- 3A number of places in the United States:
- 4A number of places in the United States:
- 5A number of places in the United States:
- 6A number of places in the United States:
Etymology
From Dakota bdóte (“mouth or junction of one river with another”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mendota", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.