mutha
/mʌðæ/
"mutha" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mutha” is uncommon English (frequency #78,850 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,850
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of mother.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mutha · mutha · English
mutha · rank #78,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,850
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH multiplatform
Nearest frequency peer: multiplatform (-1 rank slots)
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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 “mutha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mortise
mortise
21,156 corpus weight
- multimeter
multimeter
21,153 corpus weight
- multiplatfo…
multiplatform
21,152 corpus weight
- mutha
mutha
21,151 corpus weight
- nametag
nametag
21,148 corpus weight
- nanotech
nanotech
21,147 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mutha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mʌðæ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mutha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mutha is uncommon English at frequency #78,850 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mʌðæ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of mother.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mutha in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Dialectal variant of mother * Geordie dialect variant of mother. * Ebonics variant of mother. The correct English form is mutha, spelled M-U-T-H-A.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of mother.
Etymology
Dialectal variant of mother * Geordie dialect variant of mother. * Ebonics variant of mother.
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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