Mountie
"mountie" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mountie” is uncommon English (frequency #81,599 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,599
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mountie · Mountie · English
Mountie · rank #81,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,599
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH moyen
Nearest frequency peer: moyen (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mountie”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Molnar
Molnar
18,409 corpus weight
- moneymaking
moneymaking
18,407 corpus weight
- Moorhouse
Moorhouse
18,406 corpus weight
- Mountie
Mountie
18,402 corpus weight
- moyen
moyen
18,400 corpus weight
- muddling
muddling
18,396 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mountie” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mountie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mountie” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mountie is uncommon English at frequency #81,599 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Mountie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mounted + -ie. The correct English form is Mountie, spelled M-O-U-N-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- 2A member of the North West Mounted Police
- 3A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.
Etymology
From mounted + -ie.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mountie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.