mooning
"mooning" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mooning” is uncommon English (frequency #76,136 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,136
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of showing one's buttocks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mooning · mooning · English
mooning · rank #76,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,136
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monseigneur
Nearest frequency peer: monseigneur (-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 “mooning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- molde
molde
23,870 corpus weight
- monseigneur
monseigneur
23,866 corpus weight
- mooning
mooning
23,865 corpus weight
- MSV
MSV
23,863 corpus weight
- mudge
mudge
23,862 corpus weight
- Mullingar
Mullingar
23,861 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mooning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mooning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mooning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mooning is uncommon English at frequency #76,136 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of showing one's buttocks.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mooning in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: The usage of "mooning" to refer to the act reflected the use of "moon" as a metaphor for "the buttocks" since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s. The correct English form is mooning, spelled M-O-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of showing one's buttocks.
Etymology
The usage of "mooning" to refer to the act reflected the use of "moon" as a metaphor for "the buttocks" since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s.
This word in other languages
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).