marmot
/ˈmɑː.mət/
"marmot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marmot” is uncommon English (frequency #59,531 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,531
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marmot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɑː.mət/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marmot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
marmot is uncommon English at frequency #59,531 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɑː.mət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marmot, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, the plural form of Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansh murmont, Old High German mure… The correct English form is marmot, spelled M-A-R-M-O-T.
Definition
- 1Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
Etymology
From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, the plural form of Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansh murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).
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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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- The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-M-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.