# bookmark

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)k/ · frequency rank #27,382

## Definitions
1. A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
2. A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
3. A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

## Etymology
From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).

## Common misspellings (12)
`bbookmark`, `bokmark`, `bokomark`, `bookamrk`, `bookkmark`, `bookmakr`, `bookmarkk`, `bookmarrk`, `bookmmark`, `bookmrak`, `boomkark`, `obokmark`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bookmark