milepost
/ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/
"milepost" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“milepost” is uncommon English (frequency #76,990 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,990
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.
Corpus desk
Index EN-milepost · milepost · English
milepost · rank #76,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,990
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH microglia
Nearest frequency peer: microglia (-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 “milepost”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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23,015 corpus weight
- Michoacán
Michoacán
23,014 corpus weight
- microenviro…
microenvironment
23,013 corpus weight
- microglia
microglia
23,012 corpus weight
- milepost
milepost
23,011 corpus weight
- miscarry
miscarry
23,008 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “milepost” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milepost |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “milepost” in English
Rare enough to double-check
milepost is uncommon English at frequency #76,990 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmaɪlˌpoʊst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
milepost has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mile + post. The correct English form is milepost, spelled M-I-L-E-P-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places.
- 2A sign or post beside a railway marking the distance from the (actual or nominal) start of a line (usually the principal terminus or junction with a more major line).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milepost appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
[...] the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.
Etymology
From mile + post.
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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