Muldoon
"muldoon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Muldoon” is uncommon English (frequency #54,957 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,957
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-muldoon · Muldoon · English
Muldoon · rank #54,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,957
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mui
Nearest frequency peer: mui (-1 rank slots)
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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 “Muldoon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mtDNA
mtDNA
45,047 corpus weight
- mugger
mugger
45,046 corpus weight
- mui
mui
45,045 corpus weight
- Muldoon
Muldoon
45,044 corpus weight
- multifuncti…
multifunctional
45,043 corpus weight
- Murkowski
Murkowski
45,042 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Muldoon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Muldoon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Muldoon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Muldoon is uncommon English at frequency #54,957 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Muldoon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish Ó Maoldúin (“descendant of Maoldúin”), from Ó + Maoldúin. The correct English form is Muldoon, spelled M-U-L-D-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
- 2A neighbourhood of Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
- 3A town in Fayette County, Texas, United States.
- 4Someone able to deliver a lot of votes for a local political machine.
Etymology
From Irish Ó Maoldúin (“descendant of Maoldúin”), from Ó + Maoldúin.
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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