Marjorie
"marjorie" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marjorie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,996
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Ancient Greek.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marjorie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Marjorie” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Marjorie, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,996 among 36,575 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Ancient Greek.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marjorie, with forms such as "amrjorie", "majrorie", and "marjjorie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Margery, a medieval vernacular form of Margaret. The correct English form is Marjorie, spelled M-A-R-J-O-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Etymology
Variant of Margery, a medieval vernacular form of Margaret.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrjorie
- majrorie
- marjjorie
- marjoire
- marjorei
- marjorrie
- marjroie
- marojrie
- marrjorie
- mmarjorie
- mrajorie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marjorie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Marjorie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-J-O-R-I-E - 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.