Mulhouse
/məˈluːz/
"mulhouse" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mulhouse” is uncommon English (frequency #91,829 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,829
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mulhouse · Mulhouse · English
Mulhouse · rank #91,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,829
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mucin
Nearest frequency peer: mucin (-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 “Mulhouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mucin
mucin
8,173 corpus weight
- Mulhouse
Mulhouse
8,172 corpus weight
- Mullaney
Mullaney
8,171 corpus weight
- multiscale
multiscale
8,170 corpus weight
- multithread…
multithreading
8,169 corpus weight
- métro
métro
8,168 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mulhouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mulhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /məˈluːz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mulhouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mulhouse is uncommon English at frequency #91,829 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /məˈluːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mulhouse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Milhouse, from Alemannic German Milhüsa or its source Middle High German Mülnhūsen, from Old High German Mulinhūson; compare German Mülhausen (literally “mill house”). Doublet of millhouse. The correct English form is Mulhouse, spelled M-U-L-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A city in Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Milhouse, from Alemannic German Milhüsa or its source Middle High German Mülnhūsen, from Old High German Mulinhūson; compare German Mülhausen (literally “mill house”). Doublet of millhouse.
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); 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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