mortician
/mɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃən/
"mortician" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mortician” is uncommon English (frequency #75,219 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,219
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mortician · mortician · English
mortician · rank #75,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,219
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mosely
Nearest frequency peer: Mosely (+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 “mortician”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moar
moar
24,787 corpus weight
- Modoc
Modoc
24,786 corpus weight
- mortician
mortician
24,782 corpus weight
- Mosely
Mosely
24,781 corpus weight
- motorhead
motorhead
24,780 corpus weight
- mouthfeel
mouthfeel
24,779 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mortician” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortician |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mortician” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mortician is uncommon English at frequency #75,219 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mortician in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin mort- (“death”) + -ician. The correct English form is mortician, spelled M-O-R-T-I-C-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mortician appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“And I prefer mortician to funeral director. It sounds more professional and, well, it is more precise. I deal with more than mere funerals; I deal with death, passing on, the transition.”
Etymology
From Latin mort- (“death”) + -ician.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).