# marbles

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #22,737

## Definitions
1. Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
2. Sanity.
3. Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.

## Easily confused with
- **mares** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marbles-vs-mares)
- **Marley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marbles-vs-marley)
- **Marple** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marbles-vs-marple)
- **marches** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marbles-vs-marches)
- **Morales** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marbles-vs-morales)
- **males** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/males-vs-marbles)
- **marble** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marble-vs-marbles)
- **marbled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marbled-vs-marbles)

## Common misspellings (11)
`amrbles`, `mabrles`, `marbbles`, `marbels`, `marbless`, `marblles`, `marblse`, `marlbes`, `marrbles`, `mmarbles`, `mrables`

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