maraschino
/ˌmæɹ.əˈʃiː.nəʊ/
"maraschino" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maraschino” is uncommon English (frequency #79,731 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,731
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maraschino · maraschino · English
maraschino · rank #79,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,731
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marchi
Nearest frequency peer: Marchi (+1 rank slots)
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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 “maraschino”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- magnon
magnon
20,276 corpus weight
- makan
makan
20,275 corpus weight
- maraschino
maraschino
20,270 corpus weight
- Marchi
Marchi
20,269 corpus weight
- Maritza
Maritza
20,265 corpus weight
- Maronite
Maronite
20,264 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “maraschino” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maraschino |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌmæɹ.əˈʃiː.nəʊ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “maraschino” in English
Rare enough to double-check
maraschino is uncommon English at frequency #79,731 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌmæɹ.əˈʃiː.nəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maraschino, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian maraschino, from marasca, from amaro (“bitter”). The correct English form is maraschino, spelled M-A-R-A-S-C-H-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries.
Etymology
From Italian maraschino, from marasca, from amaro (“bitter”).
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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