mulled
/mʌld/
"mulled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mulled” is uncommon English (frequency #51,267 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,267
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of mull
Corpus desk
Index EN-mulled · mulled · English
mulled · rank #51,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,267
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH muggy
Nearest frequency peer: muggy (-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 “mulled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- monteith
monteith
48,738 corpus weight
- mouton
mouton
48,736 corpus weight
- muggy
muggy
48,735 corpus weight
- mulled
mulled
48,734 corpus weight
- multiplicat…
multiplicative
48,733 corpus weight
- muting
muting
48,732 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mulled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /mʌld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mulled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mulled is uncommon English at frequency #51,267 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /mʌld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of mull".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mulled, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is mulled, spelled M-U-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of mull
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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