marionettes
"marionettes" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marionettes” is uncommon English (frequency #76,104 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,104
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of marionette
Corpus desk
Index EN-marionettes · marionettes · English
marionettes · rank #76,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,104
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH marginalisati…
Nearest frequency peer: marginalisation (-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 “marionettes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mamo
mamo
23,904 corpus weight
- Mandingo
Mandingo
23,902 corpus weight
- marchesa
marchesa
23,899 corpus weight
- marginalisa…
marginalisation
23,898 corpus weight
- marionettes
marionettes
23,897 corpus weight
- matchstick
matchstick
23,891 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marionettes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “marionettes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marionettes is uncommon English at frequency #76,104 among 4,057 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marionettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And here in Spain I am a Spaniard / I will be buried with my marionettes / Countess and courtesan / Have fallen 'neath my tender hand / When their husbands were not around
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).