moonbeam
/ˈmun.bim/
"moonbeam" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“moonbeam” is uncommon English (frequency #73,453 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,453
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A ray or shaft of moonlight.
Corpus desk
Index EN-moonbeam · moonbeam · English
moonbeam · rank #73,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,453
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monosyllabic
Nearest frequency peer: monosyllabic (-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 “moonbeam”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- molle
molle
26,553 corpus weight
- Moncada
Moncada
26,551 corpus weight
- monosyllabic
monosyllabic
26,549 corpus weight
- moonbeam
moonbeam
26,548 corpus weight
- Morpeth
Morpeth
26,546 corpus weight
- motorcar
motorcar
26,544 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “moonbeam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moonbeam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmun.bim/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “moonbeam” in English
Rare enough to double-check
moonbeam is uncommon English at frequency #73,453 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmun.bim/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
moonbeam has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compound of moon + beam. The correct English form is moonbeam, spelled M-O-O-N-B-E-A-M.
Definition
- 1A ray or shaft of moonlight.
- 2Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Philiris.
- 3Someone who tends to be dreamy and prone to unrealistic romanticism.
- 4A goal or aspiration that appears attractive but is ultimately insubstantial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moonbeam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holonym: moonlight
Be kinde and curteous to this gentleman, / Hop in his walkes, and gambole in his eyes, / Feede him with Apricocks, and Dewberries, / With purple Grapes, greene figges, and Mulberries, / The hony bagges ſteale from the humble Bees, / And for night tapers, croppe their waxen thighes, / And light them with at the fiery Glowe-wormes eyes, / To haue my loue to…
Etymology
Compound of moon + beam.
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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