marbles
"marbles" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marbles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,737
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
Corpus desk
Index EN-marbles · marbles · English
marbles · rank #22,737 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,737
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mammalian
Nearest frequency peer: mammalian (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “marbles”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Madeline
Madeline
77,267 corpus weight
- magma
magma
77,266 corpus weight
- mammalian
mammalian
77,265 corpus weight
- marbles
marbles
77,264 corpus weight
- Marcia
Marcia
77,263 corpus weight
- milking
milking
77,262 corpus weight
What this shows “marbles” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marbles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “marbles”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around marbles, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,737 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for marbles, with forms such as "amrbles", "mabrles", and "marbbles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mares", "Marley", "Marple", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is marbles, spelled M-A-R-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
- 2Sanity.
- 3Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marbles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.
Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrbles
- mabrles
- marbbles
- marbels
- marbless
- marblles
- marblse
- marlbes
- marrbles
- mmarbles
- mrables
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marbles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marbles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).