Margret

name

"margret" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Margret” is uncommon English (frequency #70,875 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,875
frequency rank, English
4,057
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name, variant of Margaret.

Corpus desk

Index EN-margret · Margret · English

Margret · rank #70,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,875
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,057
  • PHOTO-FINISH Marfa

Nearest frequency peer: Marfa (-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 “Margret”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “Margret” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Margret
PropertyValue
HeadwordMargret
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,875
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Margret” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).Margretfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Marfa” (#70,874), “Marduk” (#70,873), “Marceau” (#70,872). Among 4,057 “M” headwords, “Margret” is #70,875. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Margret is uncommon English at frequency #70,875 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name, variant of Margaret.".

Margret doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Margret, spelled M-A-R-G-R-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A female given name, variant of Margaret.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Margret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The engagement has been announced of Miss Margret Jean Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McCormick Scott of this city, to Richard Carlton Condon, son of Mrs. John Condon Jr. of Philadelphia and the late Mr. Condon.
  2. The chapel of Temple Emanu-El was the scene yesterday afternoon of the marriage of Miss Margret Sue Bernard to Elliot W. Dann.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Margret"?
"Margret" is spelled M-A-R-G-R-E-T.
What does "Margret" mean?
As a proper noun, "Margret" means: A female given name, variant of Margaret.
What language does "Margret" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Margret", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list