Marilla
"marilla" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marilla” is uncommon English (frequency #95,111 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,111
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marilla · Marilla · English
Marilla · rank #95,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,111
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH manhandle
Nearest frequency peer: manhandle (-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 “Marilla”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mahomet
Mahomet
4,897 corpus weight
- makai
makai
4,896 corpus weight
- malnourishm…
malnourishment
4,893 corpus weight
- manhandle
manhandle
4,891 corpus weight
- Marilla
Marilla
4,890 corpus weight
- Mayumi
Mayumi
4,884 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Marilla” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marilla |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Marilla” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Marilla is uncommon English at frequency #95,111 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Marilla in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: An American fanciful variant of Maria. The correct English form is Marilla, spelled M-A-R-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla.
She had been named after Aunt Marilla of Green Gables, but Aunt Marilla had died before Rilla was old enough to know her very well, and Rilla detested the name as being horribly old-fashioned and prim.
Etymology
An American fanciful variant of Maria.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).