multicolor
/ˌmʌltɪˈkʌlə/
"multicolor" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“multicolor” is uncommon English (frequency #58,219 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,219
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.
Corpus desk
Index EN-multicolor · multicolor · English
multicolor · rank #58,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,219
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Muirhead
Nearest frequency peer: Muirhead (-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 “multicolor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moos
moos
41,788 corpus weight
- MSR
MSR
41,784 corpus weight
- Muirhead
Muirhead
41,783 corpus weight
- multicolor
multicolor
41,782 corpus weight
- Murrow
Murrow
41,780 corpus weight
- Myrna
Myrna
41,776 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “multicolor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | multicolor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌmʌltɪˈkʌlə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “multicolor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
multicolor is uncommon English at frequency #58,219 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌmʌltɪˈkʌlə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.".
multicolor has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin multicolor, equivalent to multi- + color; see below. The correct English form is multicolor, spelled M-U-L-T-I-C-O-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin multicolor, equivalent to multi- + color; see below.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).