mouser
/ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/
"mouser" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mouser” is uncommon English (frequency #83,535 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,535
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mouser · mouser · English
mouser · rank #83,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,535
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH moonraker
Nearest frequency peer: moonraker (-4 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 “mouser”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- monoclinic
monoclinic
16,473 corpus weight
- moodle
moodle
16,471 corpus weight
- moonraker
moonraker
16,470 corpus weight
- mouser
mouser
16,466 corpus weight
- Mucha
Mucha
16,462 corpus weight
- multigenera…
multigenerational
16,459 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mouser” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouser |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mouser” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mouser is uncommon English at frequency #83,535 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mouser has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly w… The correct English form is mouser, spelled M-O-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
- 2A moustache.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mouser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].
Etymology
From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache.
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); 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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