mortifying
"mortifying" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mortifying” is uncommon English (frequency #56,296 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,296
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mortification; abstinence
Corpus desk
Index EN-mortifying · mortifying · English
mortifying · rank #56,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,296
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH morgenstern
Nearest frequency peer: morgenstern (-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 “mortifying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Minoan
Minoan
43,711 corpus weight
- Moen
Moen
43,707 corpus weight
- morgenstern
morgenstern
43,706 corpus weight
- mortifying
mortifying
43,705 corpus weight
- motorcycling
motorcycling
43,702 corpus weight
- MTF
MTF
43,700 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mortifying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mortifying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mortifying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mortifying is uncommon English at frequency #56,296 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mortification; abstinence".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mortifying in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is mortifying, spelled M-O-R-T-I-F-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1mortification; abstinence
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mortifying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mortifyings of the flesh
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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