mutual admiration society

noun

"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

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Key facts for mutual admiration society
PropertyValue
Headwordmutual admiration society
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “mutual admiration society” in English

mutual admiration societysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mutual admiration society appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Those two are incessantly flattering one another. They've formed an utterly nauseating mutual admiration society!
  2. And the said members did accordingly resolve themselves into a little "mutual admiration society" for the entertainment and benefit of their visitors.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mutual admiration society"?
"mutual admiration society" is spelled M-U-T-U-A-L- -A-D-M-I-R-A-T-I-O-N- -S-O-C-I-E-T-Y.
What does "mutual admiration society" mean?
As a noun, "mutual admiration society" means: 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.
What language does "mutual admiration society" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list