marionettes
"marionettes" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marionettes” is uncommon English (frequency #76,104 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,104
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of marionette
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marionettes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marionettes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
marionettes is uncommon English at frequency #76,104 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of marionette".
No generated misspelling entries exist for marionettes in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is marionettes, spelled M-A-R-I-O-N-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of marionette
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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Using “marionettes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-I-O-N-E-T-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.