mucky
/ˈmʌki/
"mucky" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mucky” is uncommon English (frequency #67,662 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,662
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Covered in muck.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mucky · mucky · English
mucky · rank #67,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mortification
Nearest frequency peer: mortification (-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 “mucky”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- monumentally
monumentally
32,343 corpus weight
- morne
morne
32,341 corpus weight
- mortificati…
mortification
32,340 corpus weight
- mucky
mucky
32,339 corpus weight
- MUDder
MUDder
32,338 corpus weight
- Musgrove
Musgrove
32,336 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mucky” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mucky |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmʌki/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mucky” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mucky is uncommon English at frequency #67,662 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmʌki/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mucky doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From muck + -y. The correct English form is mucky, spelled M-U-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Covered in muck.
- 2Obscene, pornographic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mucky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tell them if you want a mucky oven cleaned before the visit as special steam-cleaning equipment may be needed.
a mucky magazine
Etymology
From muck + -y.
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.
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