mucosal
"mucosal" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mucosal” is uncommon English (frequency #51,858 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,858
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes (mucosae).
Corpus desk
Index EN-mucosal · mucosal · English
mucosal · rank #51,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,858
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mountbatten
Nearest frequency peer: Mountbatten (-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 “mucosal”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- modernise
modernise
48,148 corpus weight
- montes
montes
48,145 corpus weight
- Mountbatten
Mountbatten
48,144 corpus weight
- mucosal
mucosal
48,143 corpus weight
- Mykonos
Mykonos
48,137 corpus weight
- naloxone
naloxone
48,135 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mucosal” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mucosal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mucosal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mucosal is uncommon English at frequency #51,858 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes (mucosae).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mucosal in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mucosa + -al. The correct English form is mucosal, spelled M-U-C-O-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes (mucosae).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mucosal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenh…
Etymology
From mucosa + -al.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).