Marthe
"marthe" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marthe” is uncommon English (frequency #77,905 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,905
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from French or Norwegian, equivalent to English Martha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marthe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Marthe” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Marthe is uncommon English at frequency #77,905 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from French or Norwegian, equivalent to English Martha.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Marthe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Marthe and Norwegian Marthe. The correct English form is Marthe, spelled M-A-R-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from French or Norwegian, equivalent to English Martha.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Marthe and Norwegian Marthe.
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 “Marthe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-T-H-E - 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.