moley
"moley" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“moley” is uncommon English (frequency #85,532 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,532
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing insectivores).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “moley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
moley is uncommon English at frequency #85,532 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for moley, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mole + -y. The correct English form is moley, spelled M-O-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing insectivores).
- 2Having numerous moles (naevi)
Etymology
From mole + -y.
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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Using “moley”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-L-E-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.