Mortlake
/ˈmɔːtleɪk/
"mortlake" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mortlake” is uncommon English (frequency #99,592 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,592
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A suburban area of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England (OS grid ref TQ2075).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mortlake |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɔːtleɪk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mortlake” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mortlake is uncommon English at frequency #99,592 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈmɔːtleɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mortlake, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Mortlake, spelled M-O-R-T-L-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1A suburban area of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England (OS grid ref TQ2075).
- 2A suburb of Sydney in the Canada Bay council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- 3A town in the Shire of Moyne, south western Victoria, Australia
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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Using “Mortlake”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-O-R-T-L-A-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmɔːtleɪk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.