mouthy
"mouthy" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mouthy” is uncommon English (frequency #66,110 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,110
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Overly talkative, insolent, and loud.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mouthy · mouthy · English
mouthy · rank #66,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,110
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH mox
Nearest frequency peer: mox (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mouthy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Montag
Montag
33,895 corpus weight
- Morelos
Morelos
33,893 corpus weight
- mouthy
mouthy
33,891 corpus weight
- mox
mox
33,890 corpus weight
- Mraz
Mraz
33,889 corpus weight
- muddied
muddied
33,887 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mouthy” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouthy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mouthy” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mouthy is uncommon English at frequency #66,110 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mouthy has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mouth + -y (adjectival suffix). The correct English form is mouthy, spelled M-O-U-T-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Overly talkative, insolent, and loud.
- 2Of a dog: inclined to bite or nip.
Etymology
From mouth + -y (adjectival suffix).
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.
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 May 6, 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 "mouthy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 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.