marginalia
/mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/
"marginalia" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marginalia” is uncommon English (frequency #88,581 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,581
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Notes in the margin of a document.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marginalia · marginalia · English
marginalia · rank #88,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,581
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH margrave
Nearest frequency peer: margrave (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “marginalia”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Malthusian
Malthusian
11,425 corpus weight
- Manzano
Manzano
11,423 corpus weight
- Marah
Marah
11,422 corpus weight
- marginalia
marginalia
11,420 corpus weight
- margrave
margrave
11,419 corpus weight
- Maries
Maries
11,418 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “marginalia” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marginalia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marginalia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
marginalia is uncommon English at frequency #88,581 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Notes in the margin of a document.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marginalia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin marginālia (cf. margināle (neuter singular (adjective / noun)), from Medieval Latin neuter plural of marginālis (“on the periphery”), from Latin margō (“border, edge”). By surface analysis, marginal + -ia. Compare margin. The correct English form is marginalia, spelled M-A-R-G-I-N-A-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Notes in the margin of a document.
Etymology
From New Latin marginālia (cf. margināle (neuter singular (adjective / noun)), from Medieval Latin neuter plural of marginālis (“on the periphery”), from Latin margō (“border, edge”). By surface analysis, marginal + -ia. Compare margin.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.