Muscatine

name

"muscatine" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Muscatine” is uncommon English (frequency #70,938 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,938
frequency rank, English
36,575
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.

Key facts for Muscatine
PropertyValue
HeadwordMuscatine
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#70,938
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Muscatine” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Muscatine lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Muscatine is uncommon English at frequency #70,938 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Muscatine in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: Possibly from Mascouten, a tribe of Native Americans. The correct English form is Muscatine, spelled M-U-S-C-A-T-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A city, the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.

Etymology

Possibly from Mascouten, a tribe of Native Americans.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Muscatine"?
"Muscatine" is spelled M-U-S-C-A-T-I-N-E.
What does "Muscatine" mean?
As a proper noun, "Muscatine" means: A city, the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.
What is the origin of the word "Muscatine"?
Possibly from Mascouten, a tribe of Native Americans. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “Muscatine”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is M-U-S-C-A-T-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list