mutating
"mutating" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mutating” is uncommon English (frequency #58,875 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,875
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causing or tending to cause mutation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mutating · mutating · English
mutating · rank #58,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,875
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mutable
Nearest frequency peer: mutable (-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 “mutating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Murmansk
Murmansk
41,130 corpus weight
- Muscovite
Muscovite
41,129 corpus weight
- muskrat
muskrat
41,128 corpus weight
- mutable
mutable
41,127 corpus weight
- mutating
mutating
41,126 corpus weight
- Nagle
Nagle
41,125 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mutating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “mutating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mutating is uncommon English at frequency #58,875 among 4,057 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The mutating process that cells undergo can lead to cancer.
std::sort is a mutating algorithm.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).