mooching
"mooching" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mooching” is uncommon English (frequency #86,530 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,530
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An idle stroll.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mooching · mooching · English
mooching · rank #86,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,530
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monoplane
Nearest frequency peer: monoplane (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “mooching”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moko
moko
13,474 corpus weight
- monoplane
monoplane
13,472 corpus weight
- mooching
mooching
13,471 corpus weight
- mopey
mopey
13,470 corpus weight
- movingly
movingly
13,468 corpus weight
- Moyle
Moyle
13,467 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mooching” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mooching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mooching” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mooching is uncommon English at frequency #86,530 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An idle stroll.".
mooching doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is mooching, spelled M-O-O-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An idle stroll.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mooching appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
her frequent moochings around the castle grounds
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).