maroon
/məˈɹuːn/
"maroon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maroon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,361
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maroon · maroon · English
maroon · rank #18,361 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,361
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Maldives
Nearest frequency peer: Maldives (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “maroon”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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81,643 corpus weight
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81,642 corpus weight
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81,641 corpus weight
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81,640 corpus weight
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81,639 corpus weight
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81,638 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “maroon” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | maroon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /məˈɹuːn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maroon” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around maroon (IPA /məˈɹuːn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,361 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for maroon, with forms such as "amroon", "maoron", and "maron". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moon", "mason", "moron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more. The correct English form is maroon, spelled M-A-R-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
- 2A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maroon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan.
Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved.
Etymology
From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amroon
- maoron
- maron
- marono
- maroonn
- marroon
- mmaroon
- mraoon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maroon - 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 "maroon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "maroon" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "moon". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,361 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
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.