mota
"mota" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mota” is uncommon English (frequency #50,082 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,082
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of mootah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mota · mota · English
mota · rank #50,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,082
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH moxie
Nearest frequency peer: moxie (+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 “mota”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Moravian
Moravian
49,922 corpus weight
- morell
morell
49,921 corpus weight
- mota
mota
49,919 corpus weight
- moxie
moxie
49,918 corpus weight
- MPN
MPN
49,917 corpus weight
- MRA
MRA
49,916 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mota” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mota |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mota” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mota is uncommon English at frequency #50,082 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of mootah.".
mota doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mota, spelled M-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of mootah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thurston... I think it's 10:30. We're calling from Providence, Rhode Island. Did you find your shit? You gotta watch the mota, Thurston, your fuckin memory just goes out the window.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).