mutating
"mutating" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mutating” is uncommon English (frequency #58,875 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,875
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Causing or tending to cause mutation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mutating” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mutating is uncommon English at frequency #58,875 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mutating, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mutating, spelled M-U-T-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing or tending to cause mutation.
- 2Having the ability to make changes to data other than its makeup.
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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Using “mutating”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-U-T-A-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.