mouth organ
/maʊθ ˈoɹɡən/
"mouth-organ" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mouth organ” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A free reed aerophone, in the Western tradition commonly the harmonica.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouth organ |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /maʊθ ˈoɹɡən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mouth organ” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mouth organ is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /maʊθ ˈoɹɡən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A free reed aerophone, in the Western tradition commonly the harmonica.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mouth organ, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mouth + organ. The correct English form is mouth organ, spelled M-O-U-T-H- -O-R-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1A free reed aerophone, in the Western tradition commonly the harmonica.
Etymology
From mouth + organ.
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.
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Using “mouth organ”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-U-T-H- -O-R-G-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /maʊθ ˈoɹɡən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.