Marengo
"marengo" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marengo” is uncommon English (frequency #73,408 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,408
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ellipsis of chicken Marengo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marengo · Marengo · English
Marengo · rank #73,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,408
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Markowitz
Nearest frequency peer: Markowitz (+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 “Marengo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Makassar
Makassar
26,597 corpus weight
- malate
malate
26,596 corpus weight
- mandrel
mandrel
26,595 corpus weight
- Marengo
Marengo
26,593 corpus weight
- Markowitz
Markowitz
26,592 corpus weight
- Maroney
Maroney
26,591 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Marengo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marengo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Marengo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Marengo is uncommon English at frequency #73,408 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ellipsis of chicken Marengo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Marengo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Marengo, spelled M-A-R-E-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Ellipsis of chicken Marengo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marengo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Marengo of Chicken can only be produced in perfection from a young bird. It is a very appetising dish.
Another writer, Frank Richardson, pointed out how common it was to find a Marengo dish without any chicken in it.
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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