mouthpieces

noun

"mouthpieces" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“mouthpieces” is uncommon English (frequency #63,814 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,814
frequency rank, English
4,057
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of mouthpiece

Corpus desk

Index EN-mouthpieces · mouthpieces · English

mouthpieces · rank #63,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,814
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,057
  • PHOTO-FINISH MRE

Nearest frequency peer: MRE (+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 “mouthpieces”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “mouthpieces” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mouthpieces
PropertyValue
Headwordmouthpieces
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#63,814
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “mouthpieces” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).mouthpiecesfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “MRE” (#63,815), “mudstone” (#63,816), “multifunction” (#63,819). Among 4,057 “M” headwords, “mouthpieces” is #63,814. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mouthpieces is uncommon English at frequency #63,814 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of mouthpiece".

mouthpieces doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is mouthpieces, spelled M-O-U-T-H-P-I-E-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural of mouthpiece

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mouthpieces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Prominent Chinese-American historian Yu Ying-shih (余英時) warned on Friday (Nov. 22) of Taiwan media outlets acting as mouthpieces for the Chinese government.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mouthpieces"?
"mouthpieces" is spelled M-O-U-T-H-P-I-E-C-E-S.
What does "mouthpieces" mean?
As a noun, "mouthpieces" means: plural of mouthpiece
What language does "mouthpieces" come from?
"mouthpieces" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mouthpieces", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list