marsupial
/mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/
"marsupial" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marsupial” is uncommon English (frequency #58,833 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,833
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-marsupial · marsupial · English
marsupial · rank #58,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,833
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Margaery
Nearest frequency peer: Margaery (-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 “marsupial”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mangalore
Mangalore
41,172 corpus weight
- Maren
Maren
41,170 corpus weight
- Margaery
Margaery
41,169 corpus weight
- marsupial
marsupial
41,168 corpus weight
- Masahiro
Masahiro
41,167 corpus weight
- McClaren
McClaren
41,166 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marsupial” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marsupial |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marsupial” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marsupial is uncommon English at frequency #58,833 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɑːˈsuː.pi.əl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, ...".
Zero misspellings are on record for marsupial in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al. The correct English form is marsupial, spelled M-A-R-S-U-P-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
Etymology
From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”), from Ancient Greek μαρσύπιον (marsúpion) or μαρσύππιον (marsúppion), variants of μαρσίππιον (marsíppion), diminutive of μάρσιππος (mársippos, “bag, pouch”); with English -al.
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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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