mouth
/maʊθ/
"mouth" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mouth” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,569
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mouth · mouth · English
mouth · rank #1,569 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,569
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mostly
Nearest frequency peer: mostly (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mouth”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- mentioned
mentioned
98,435 corpus weight
- missed
missed
98,434 corpus weight
- mostly
mostly
98,433 corpus weight
- mouth
mouth
98,432 corpus weight
- owner
owner
98,431 corpus weight
- previously
previously
98,429 corpus weight
What this shows “mouth” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /maʊθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mouth”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mouth (IPA /maʊθ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,569 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mouth, with forms such as "mmouth", "motuh", and "mouht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muh", "much", "myth", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West … The correct English form is mouth, spelled M-O-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- 2The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- 3An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- 4A loud or overly talkative person.
- 5A gossip.
- 6The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- 7A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
- 8Speech; language; testimony.
- 9A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mouth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
Etymology
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmouth
- motuh
- mouht
- mouthh
- moutth
- muoth
- omuth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mouth - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).