mutual admiration society
"mutual-admiration-society" is a 23-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mutual admiration society” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mutual-admiration-societ · mutual admiration society · English
mutual admiration society · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-12 12 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutual admiration society |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mutual admiration society” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mutual admiration society is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.".
mutual admiration society has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is mutual admiration society, spelled M-U-T-U-A-L- -A-D-M-I-R-A-T-I-O-N- -S-O-C-I-E-T-Y.
Definition
- 1A group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutual admiration society appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Those two are incessantly flattering one another. They've formed an utterly nauseating mutual admiration society!
And the said members did accordingly resolve themselves into a little "mutual admiration society" for the entertainment and benefit of their visitors.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.