Mortlake
/ˈmɔːtleɪk/
"mortlake" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mortlake” is uncommon English (frequency #99,592 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,592
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburban area of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England (OS grid ref TQ2075).
Corpus desk
Index EN-mortlake · Mortlake · English
Mortlake · rank #99,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,592
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Morrisey
Nearest frequency peer: Morrisey (-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 “Mortlake”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- monopolist
monopolist
414 corpus weight
- Morrisey
Morrisey
410 corpus weight
- Mortlake
Mortlake
409 corpus weight
- motet
motet
407 corpus weight
- mottling
mottling
406 corpus weight
- mournfully
mournfully
405 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mortlake” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Mortlake” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mortlake is uncommon English at frequency #99,592 among 4,057 “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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