mustering
"mustering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mustering” is uncommon English (frequency #59,569 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,569
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mustering · mustering · English
mustering · rank #59,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,569
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Muskoka
Nearest frequency peer: Muskoka (-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 “mustering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- multimillio…
multimillionaire
40,435 corpus weight
- Muskoka
Muskoka
40,433 corpus weight
- mustering
mustering
40,432 corpus weight
- Naito
Naito
40,431 corpus weight
- Najaf
Najaf
40,430 corpus weight
- nanotube
nanotube
40,429 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mustering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mustering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mustering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mustering is uncommon English at frequency #59,569 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.".
mustering has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is mustering, spelled M-U-S-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mustering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples.
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).