my arse
"my-arse" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“my arse” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.
Corpus desk
Index EN-my-arse · my arse · English
my arse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | my arse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “my arse” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
my arse is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for my arse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is my arse, spelled M-Y- -A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how my arse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Does this circuitous process of misinformation display the ‘liquid clearness of an Ionian sky’? My arse it does.
Denise: Dad! Your fly hole's all undone. Jim: Ah, the cage might be open, but the beast is asleep. Barbara: Beast my arse.
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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.
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