moby
"moby" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“moby” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,998
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mobile phone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-moby · moby · English
moby · rank #28,998 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,998
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mishap
Nearest frequency peer: mishap (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “moby”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- militarily
militarily
71,006 corpus weight
- minced
minced
71,005 corpus weight
- mishap
mishap
71,004 corpus weight
- moby
moby
71,003 corpus weight
- Mojave
Mojave
71,002 corpus weight
- molasses
molasses
71,001 corpus weight
What this shows “moby” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moby |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “moby”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around moby, anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,998 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A mobile phone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for moby, with forms such as "mboy", "mmoby", and "mobby". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mom", "mod", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mobile + -y. The correct English form is moby, spelled M-O-B-Y.
Definition
- 1A mobile phone.
Etymology
From mobile + -y.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mboy
- mmoby
- mobby
- mobyy
- moyb
- omby
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moby - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "moby", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).