market value
"market-value" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“market value” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
Corpus desk
Index EN-market-value · market value · English
market value · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | market value |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “market value” in English
Rare enough to double-check
market value is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.".
market value has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is market value, spelled M-A-R-K-E-T- -V-A-L-U-E.
Definition
- 1The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how market value appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes.
Whether in cash or in the purchase of artifacts at prices far above their market value, the issue of giving (and taking back) money has become the fulcrum of both tragedy and politics.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.