motormouth
"motormouth" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“motormouth” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-motormouth · motormouth · English
motormouth · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motormouth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “motormouth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
motormouth is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.".
Zero misspellings are on record for motormouth in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From motor + mouth, from the figurative notion that the mouth moves so much that it seems motorized. The correct English form is motormouth, spelled M-O-T-O-R-M-O-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motormouth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He's such a motormouth that I can never get a word in.
Blimey, Brand is checking a word with me. This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.
Etymology
From motor + mouth, from the figurative notion that the mouth moves so much that it seems motorized.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.