mottling
"mottling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mottling” is uncommon English (frequency #99,595 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,595
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - spots or blotches of different shades or colours
Corpus desk
Index EN-mottling · mottling · English
mottling · rank #99,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,595
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH motet
Nearest frequency peer: motet (-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 “mottling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Mukden
Mukden
403 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mottling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mottling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mottling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mottling is uncommon English at frequency #99,595 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "spots or blotches of different shades or colours".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mottling in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is mottling, spelled M-O-T-T-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1spots or blotches of different shades or colours
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mottling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The skin was somewhat pigmented, especially in certain regions, while over the whole there appeared whitish, rounded or oval mottlings or dapplings, most obvious where the surrounding cuticle was most deeply colored.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).