Marla
"marla" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marla” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,417
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Hebrew.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marla · Marla · English
Marla · rank #39,417 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,417
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH marinade
Nearest frequency peer: marinade (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Marla”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- marigold
marigold
60,586 corpus weight
- marinade
marinade
60,585 corpus weight
- Marla
Marla
60,584 corpus weight
- matted
matted
60,583 corpus weight
- Mattis
Mattis
60,582 corpus weight
- McArthur
McArthur
60,581 corpus weight
What this shows “Marla” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marla |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Marla”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Marla, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,417 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Hebrew.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marla, with forms such as "amrla", "malra", and "maral". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MLA", "Mary", "mars", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: American back-formation from Marlene, first used in the 1930s. The correct English form is Marla, spelled M-A-R-L-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Hebrew.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property.
Etymology
American back-formation from Marlene, first used in the 1930s.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrla
- malra
- maral
- marlla
- marrla
- mmarla
- mrala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marla - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Marla", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).