mutt
/mʌt/
"mutt" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mutt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,665) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,665
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mutt · mutt · English
mutt · rank #31,665 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,665
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH multitasking
Nearest frequency peer: multitasking (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mutt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- MSA
MSA
68,339 corpus weight
- MSI
MSI
68,338 corpus weight
- multitasking
multitasking
68,337 corpus weight
- mutt
mutt
68,336 corpus weight
- myocardial
myocardial
68,335 corpus weight
- Mysore
Mysore
68,334 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mutt” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mʌt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mutt” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mutt is neighbouring look-alikes ("myth", "mutton", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mʌt/. Frequency #31,665 among 4,057 “M” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mutt, with forms such as "mmutt", "mtut", and "mut". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "myth", "mutton", "mutter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of muttonhead. The correct English form is mutt, spelled M-U-T-T.
Definition
- 1A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
- 2A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
- 3An idiot, a stupid person.
- 4A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.
- 5The snowy sheathbill.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds.
Etymology
Clipping of muttonhead.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmutt
- mtut
- mut
- umtt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mutt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "mutt" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "myth". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #31,665 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
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.