Mullaney
"mullaney" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mullaney” is uncommon English (frequency #91,830 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,830
- 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-mullaney · Mullaney · English
Mullaney · rank #91,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,830
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mulhouse
Nearest frequency peer: Mulhouse (-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 “Mullaney”
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 “Mullaney” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mullaney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mullaney” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mullaney is uncommon English at frequency #91,830 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Mullaney 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilsheanaigh (“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Seanach”). The correct English form is Mullaney, spelled M-U-L-L-A-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilsheanaigh (“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Seanach”).
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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