muggle
/ˈmʌɡl̩/
"muggle" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“muggle” is uncommon English (frequency #50,684 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,684
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marijuana.
Corpus desk
Index EN-muggle · muggle · English
muggle · rank #50,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,684
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH multilevel
Nearest frequency peer: multilevel (+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 “muggle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Motta
Motta
49,320 corpus weight
- MSPS
MSPS
49,319 corpus weight
- muggle
muggle
49,317 corpus weight
- multilevel
multilevel
49,316 corpus weight
- multimodal
multimodal
49,315 corpus weight
- murmured
murmured
49,314 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “muggle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muggle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmʌɡl̩/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “muggle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
muggle is uncommon English at frequency #50,684 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmʌɡl̩/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for muggle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s. The correct English form is muggle, spelled M-U-G-G-L-E.
Definition
- 1Marijuana.
- 2A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muggle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But there was a drug in New Orleans, although it took me over nine months to find out anything about it—a drug of a very different and insidious kind! [...] It looked like chopped hay, or dried clover, and was rolled up in a double brown cigarette paper. In short, a "muggles", "weed", or "mootie", cannabis indica, Indian hemp, or, to give it its Mexican n…
The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.
Etymology
Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s.
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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