smallmouth
"smallmouth" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smallmouth” is uncommon English (frequency #75,424 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,424
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A species of freshwater bass, Micropterus dolomieu, native to central North America but widely introduced throughout Canada and the United States as a game fish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smallmouth · smallmouth · English
smallmouth · rank #75,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,424
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slouchy
Nearest frequency peer: slouchy (-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 “smallmouth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Slidell
Slidell
24,579 corpus weight
- slouchy
slouchy
24,578 corpus weight
- smallmouth
smallmouth
24,577 corpus weight
- Smirnov
Smirnov
24,576 corpus weight
- smokestack
smokestack
24,575 corpus weight
- snubbing
snubbing
24,574 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “smallmouth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smallmouth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “smallmouth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
smallmouth is uncommon English at frequency #75,424 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A species of freshwater bass, Micropterus dolomieu, native to central North America but widely introduced throughout Canada and the United States as a game fish.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for smallmouth, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From small + mouth. The correct English form is smallmouth, spelled S-M-A-L-L-M-O-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1A species of freshwater bass, Micropterus dolomieu, native to central North America but widely introduced throughout Canada and the United States as a game fish.
Etymology
From small + mouth.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).