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muck

/mʌk/noun, verb

muck is spelled M-U-C-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Muck, the name). As a noun, muck means “Slimy mud, sludge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of muck is mucks.

How many letters and syllables are in muck?

Letters4: M-U-C-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is muck?

Muck appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Muck, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce muck?

  • /mʌk/
  • /mʊk/

Muck has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-muck.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of muck

  • mucks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • mucking participle, present
  • mucked participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does muck mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Slimy mud, sludge.

    The car was covered in muck from the rally race.

  2. 2

    Soft (or slimy) manure.

  3. 3

    Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

    What's that green muck on the floor?

  4. 4

    Grub, slop, swill

  5. 5

    derogatoryobsoleteMoney.

  6. 6

    The pile of discarded cards.

  7. 7

    ScotlandslangHeroin.

  8. 8

    slangPornography.

verb

  1. 1

    To shovel muck from.

    We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.

  2. 2

    To manure with muck.

  3. 3

    To do a dirty job.

  4. 4

    colloquialTo pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.

  5. 5

    AustraliainformalTo vomit.

    Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.

  6. 6

    CanadaslangTo eat; to devour or guzzle.

noun

as MUCK
  1. 1

    A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Muck in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchboue, gadoue (slimy mud), fumier (soft manure)
GermanSchlamm, Matsch, Schmiere, Schmadder, Schmuddel, Siff (slimy mud)
Spanishporquería (slimy mud), estiércol (soft manure), mugre (anything filthy and vile, dirt)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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