Marsala
"marsala" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marsala” is uncommon English (frequency #63,786 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,786
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town in western Sicily.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marsala |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Marsala” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Marsala is uncommon English at frequency #63,786 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in western Sicily.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Marsala in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Sicilian Marsala, from an Arabic name, probably مَرْسَى عَلِيّ (marsā ʕaliyy, “Ali's harbor”), or possibly مَرْسَى اللّٰه (marsā llāh, “God's harbor”). In any case, the first element is مَرْسَى (marsā, “harbor”). The correct English form is Marsala, spelled M-A-R-S-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1A town in western Sicily.
Etymology
From Sicilian Marsala, from an Arabic name, probably مَرْسَى عَلِيّ (marsā ʕaliyy, “Ali's harbor”), or possibly مَرْسَى اللّٰه (marsā llāh, “God's harbor”). In any case, the first element is مَرْسَى (marsā, “harbor”).
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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Using “Marsala”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-S-A-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.