marihuana
"marihuana" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marihuana” is uncommon English (frequency #77,902 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,902
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of marijuana.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marihuana · marihuana · English
marihuana · rank #77,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,902
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marcelle
Nearest frequency peer: Marcelle (-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 “marihuana”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- marceline
marceline
22,101 corpus weight
- Marcelle
Marcelle
22,100 corpus weight
- marihuana
marihuana
22,099 corpus weight
- Marita
Marita
22,097 corpus weight
- Marthe
Marthe
22,096 corpus weight
- martinus
martinus
22,095 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marihuana” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marihuana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marihuana” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marihuana is uncommon English at frequency #77,902 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of marijuana.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for marihuana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is marihuana, spelled M-A-R-I-H-U-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of marijuana.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marihuana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The fumes of alcohol mingle with the sweet acrid smoke of marihuana cigarettes.
In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).