Muhlenberg
/ˈmjuːlənbəɹɡ/
"muhlenberg" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Muhlenberg” is uncommon English (frequency #70,932 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,932
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-muhlenberg · Muhlenberg · English
Muhlenberg · rank #70,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Moylan
Nearest frequency peer: Moylan (-2 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 “Muhlenberg”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mourner
mourner
29,073 corpus weight
- Movember
Movember
29,072 corpus weight
- Moylan
Moylan
29,071 corpus weight
- Muhlenberg
Muhlenberg
29,069 corpus weight
- mulching
mulching
29,067 corpus weight
- Murrell
Murrell
29,065 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Muhlenberg” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Muhlenberg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmjuːlənbəɹɡ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Muhlenberg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Muhlenberg is uncommon English at frequency #70,932 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈmjuːlənbəɹɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Muhlenberg, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Muhlenberg, spelled M-U-H-L-E-N-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Henry Augustus Muhlenberg (1823–1854).
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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