Mohave
/moʊˈhɑː.vi/
"mohave" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mohave” is uncommon English (frequency #63,805 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,805
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mohave · Mohave · English
Mohave · rank #63,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,805
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mollusca
Nearest frequency peer: mollusca (+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 “Mohave”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- monarchical
monarchical
36,193 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mohave” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mohave |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /moʊˈhɑː.vi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mohave” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mohave is uncommon English at frequency #63,805 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /moʊˈhɑː.vi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Mohave in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a shortened form of the endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”), spelled Mojave in Spanish. The correct English form is Mohave, spelled M-O-H-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.
Etymology
From a shortened form of the endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”), spelled Mojave in Spanish.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).