margarita

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The English entry for margarita is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiː.tə/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,641 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for margarita, with forms such as "amrgarita", "magrarita", and "maragrita". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "margherita", "Margaret", "margarine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish margarita. Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarite, Margherita, and marguerite. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is margarita, spelled M-A-R-G-A-R-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.