Márquez
/mɑɹkɛz/
"marquez" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Márquez” is uncommon English (frequency #58,226 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,226
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Spanish
Corpus desk
Index EN-marquez · Márquez · English
Márquez · rank #58,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,226
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Myrna
Nearest frequency peer: Myrna (-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 “Márquez”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Murrow
Murrow
41,780 corpus weight
- Myrna
Myrna
41,776 corpus weight
- Márquez
Márquez
41,775 corpus weight
- Narita
Narita
41,774 corpus weight
- nauseated
nauseated
41,773 corpus weight
- Neri
Neri
41,770 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Márquez” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Márquez |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /mɑɹkɛz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Márquez” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Márquez is uncommon English at frequency #58,226 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /mɑɹkɛz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Spanish".
Márquez has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Márquez. The correct English form is Márquez, spelled M-Á-R-Q-U-E-Z.
Definition
- 1A surname from Spanish
Etymology
From Spanish Márquez.
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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