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mudcat

noun

mudcat is spelled M-U-D-C-A-T: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mudcat means “A catfish, Ameiurus natalis (yellow bullhead), native to the Mississippi Delta” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mudcat is mudcats.

How many letters and syllables are in mudcat?

Letters6: M-U-D-C-A-T
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is mudcat?

Mudcat appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.

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

Forms of mudcat

  • mudcats plural

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

What does mudcat mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A catfish, Ameiurus natalis (yellow bullhead), native to the Mississippi Delta.

  2. 2

    A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris, syns. Silurus olivaris, Leptops olivaris), flatty or shovelhead cat, of central North America.

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

Where does mudcat come from?

From mud + cat.

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

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