moiety
/ˈmɔɪ.ə.ti/
"moiety" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“moiety” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,767
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A half.
Corpus desk
Index EN-moiety · moiety · English
moiety · rank #47,767 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,767
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH moline
Nearest frequency peer: moline (+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 “moiety”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Middlebury
Middlebury
52,239 corpus weight
- millisecond
millisecond
52,238 corpus weight
- moiety
moiety
52,234 corpus weight
- moline
moline
52,233 corpus weight
- Montreux
Montreux
52,231 corpus weight
- Montserrat
Montserrat
52,230 corpus weight
What this shows “moiety” 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 | moiety |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɔɪ.ə.ti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “moiety”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around moiety (IPA /ˈmɔɪ.ə.ti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,767 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for moiety, with forms such as "mioety", "mmoiety", and "moeity". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "money", "moist", "Monty", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French moytié, from Old French meitié (“half”) (modern French moitié (“half”)), from Late Latin medietās (“centre, midpoint; half”), from Latin medius (“half; middle”) + -tās (from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indi… The correct English form is moiety, spelled M-O-I-E-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A half.
- 2A share or portion, especially a smaller share.
- 3Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
- 4A specific segment of a molecule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moiety appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’a…
The death of Anthony / Is not a ſingle doome. In the name lay / A moity of the world.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French moytié, from Old French meitié (“half”) (modern French moitié (“half”)), from Late Latin medietās (“centre, midpoint; half”), from Latin medius (“half; middle”) + -tās (from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)). Medius is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”), possibly from *me-dʰi- (“among; with”), from *me (“in the middle of; among; with”). The word is a doublet of mediety.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mioety
- mmoiety
- moeity
- moietty
- moietyy
- moieyt
- moitey
- omiety
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moiety - 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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