marring
"marring" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marring” is uncommon English (frequency #87,529 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,529
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marring · marring · English
marring · rank #87,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH martinet
Nearest frequency peer: martinet (+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 “marring”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mangas
mangas
12,477 corpus weight
- mangling
mangling
12,476 corpus weight
- Marcion
Marcion
12,474 corpus weight
- marring
marring
12,472 corpus weight
- martinet
martinet
12,471 corpus weight
- Matsunaga
Matsunaga
12,468 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marring” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marring” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marring is uncommon English at frequency #87,529 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.".
marring doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is marring, spelled M-A-R-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit? From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England, From Lisbon, Barbary, and India? And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch Of merchant-marring rocks?
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
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