marmite
/ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/
"marmite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marmite” is uncommon English (frequency #51,238 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,238
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marmite · marmite · English
marmite · rank #51,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,238
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH marinara
Nearest frequency peer: marinara (-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 “marmite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Manitowoc
Manitowoc
48,766 corpus weight
- manliness
manliness
48,765 corpus weight
- marinara
marinara
48,764 corpus weight
- marmite
marmite
48,763 corpus weight
- McAdoo
McAdoo
48,761 corpus weight
- meekly
meekly
48,760 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marmite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marmite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marmite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marmite is uncommon English at frequency #51,238 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for marmite, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French marmite. The correct English form is marmite, spelled M-A-R-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marmite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1824 Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French Marmite, or Pot-au-Feu: and on preparing Bouillon with it My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (bouillon) of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty t…
Etymology
From French marmite.
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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