mincing
"mincing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mincing” is uncommon English (frequency #63,801 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,801
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affectedly dainty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mincing · mincing · English
mincing · rank #63,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,801
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Millbrook
Nearest frequency peer: Millbrook (-2 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 “mincing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Merah
Merah
36,206 corpus weight
- microarray
microarray
36,204 corpus weight
- Millbrook
Millbrook
36,202 corpus weight
- mincing
mincing
36,200 corpus weight
- Mohave
Mohave
36,196 corpus weight
- mollusca
mollusca
36,194 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mincing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mincing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mincing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mincing is uncommon English at frequency #63,801 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affectedly dainty.".
mincing has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mincing, spelled M-I-N-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Affectedly dainty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mincing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).