Mullingar
/ˌmʌlɪnˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
"mullingar" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mullingar” is uncommon English (frequency #76,140 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,140
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town and civil parish, the county town of County Westmeath, Ireland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mullingar · Mullingar · English
Mullingar · rank #76,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,140
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mudge
Nearest frequency peer: mudge (-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 “Mullingar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- monseigneur
monseigneur
23,866 corpus weight
- mooning
mooning
23,865 corpus weight
- MSV
MSV
23,863 corpus weight
- mudge
mudge
23,862 corpus weight
- Mullingar
Mullingar
23,861 corpus weight
- myopathy
myopathy
23,856 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mullingar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mullingar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌmʌlɪnˈɡɑː(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mullingar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mullingar is uncommon English at frequency #76,140 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌmʌlɪnˈɡɑː(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mullingar, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish Muileann gCearr (literally “crooked mill”). The correct English form is Mullingar, spelled M-U-L-L-I-N-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1A town and civil parish, the county town of County Westmeath, Ireland.
- 2A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Meeting Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 3A locality, a suburb of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
Etymology
From Irish Muileann gCearr (literally “crooked mill”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).