Maritimes
/ˈmɛɹɪˌtaɪmz/
"maritimes" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maritimes” is uncommon English (frequency #57,549 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,549
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Maritime provinces: A geographic region of Canada comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maritimes · Maritimes · English
Maritimes · rank #57,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,549
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maquis
Nearest frequency peer: maquis (-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 “Maritimes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- malformation
malformation
42,455 corpus weight
- manes
manes
42,454 corpus weight
- maquis
maquis
42,453 corpus weight
- Maritimes
Maritimes
42,452 corpus weight
- Marte
Marte
42,451 corpus weight
- matric
matric
42,450 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Maritimes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maritimes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛɹɪˌtaɪmz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Maritimes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Maritimes is uncommon English at frequency #57,549 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈmɛɹɪˌtaɪmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Maritime provinces: A geographic region of Canada comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Maritimes, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Maritimes, spelled M-A-R-I-T-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Maritime provinces: A geographic region of Canada comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maritimes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are surprisingly many universities in the Maritimes.
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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