marmot
/ˈmɑː.mət/
"marmot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marmot” is uncommon English (frequency #59,531 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,531
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marmot · marmot · English
marmot · rank #59,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,531
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH markdown
Nearest frequency peer: markdown (-1 rank slots)
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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 “marmot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Marciano
Marciano
40,473 corpus weight
- Mariko
Mariko
40,472 corpus weight
- markdown
markdown
40,471 corpus weight
- marmot
marmot
40,470 corpus weight
- Matsui
Matsui
40,469 corpus weight
- maximally
maximally
40,468 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marmot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “marmot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marmot is uncommon English at frequency #59,531 among 4,057 “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).
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); 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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