mucosity
"mucosity" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mucosity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being mucous or containing mucus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mucosity · mucosity · English
mucosity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mucosity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mucosity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mucosity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mucosity in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French mucosité; by surface analysis, mucous + -ity. The correct English form is mucosity, spelled M-U-C-O-S-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being mucous or containing mucus.
- 2Mucous material: mucus; especially, snot, sputum, or phlegm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mucosity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the smears made from the viscid pus of the kidney abscesses and the lung nodules, a micro-organism was found. This was a rather long, thick bacillus with rounded edges, and only staining with difficulty. The length varied between 0·5 to 0·8 microns. As a rule no characteristic grouping was found; in a few cases an arrangement resembling that sometimes…
The symptoms are constant sneezing and a discharge of a limpid, yellow or green mucosity from the nostrils. The infant, contrary to its usual habit, sleeps with the mouth open, it sucks with difficulty, as its respiration is impeded, and its snuffling is more or less intense. In some cases the mucosity is so thick as to close up one or both nostrils, and…
Etymology
From French mucosité; by surface analysis, mucous + -ity.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.