mutinous
/ˈmjuːtɪnəs/
"mutinous" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mutinous” is uncommon English (frequency #70,941 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,941
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Likely to commit mutiny.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mutinous · mutinous · English
mutinous · rank #70,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,941
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Muscovy
Nearest frequency peer: Muscovy (-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 “mutinous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Murrell
Murrell
29,065 corpus weight
- murry
murry
29,064 corpus weight
- Muscatine
Muscatine
29,063 corpus weight
- Muscovy
Muscovy
29,061 corpus weight
- mutinous
mutinous
29,060 corpus weight
- nativist
nativist
29,054 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mutinous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutinous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmjuːtɪnəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mutinous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mutinous is uncommon English at frequency #70,941 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmjuːtɪnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mutinous, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mutinous, spelled M-U-T-I-N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Likely to commit mutiny.
- 2Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutinous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
“My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
Synonyms
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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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