Marsala
"marsala" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marsala” is uncommon English (frequency #63,786 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,786
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in western Sicily.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marsala · Marsala · English
Marsala · rank #63,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,786
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maron
Nearest frequency peer: maron (-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 “Marsala”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mapper
mapper
36,218 corpus weight
- Marcie
Marcie
36,217 corpus weight
- maron
maron
36,216 corpus weight
- Marsala
Marsala
36,215 corpus weight
- marshland
marshland
36,214 corpus weight
- McGonagall
McGonagall
36,213 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Marsala” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Marsala” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Marsala is uncommon English at frequency #63,786 among 4,057 “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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).