Marthe
"marthe" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Marthe” is uncommon English (frequency #77,905 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,905
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from French or Norwegian, equivalent to English Martha.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marthe · Marthe · English
Marthe · rank #77,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,905
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marita
Nearest frequency peer: Marita (-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 “Marthe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Marcelle
Marcelle
22,100 corpus weight
- marihuana
marihuana
22,099 corpus weight
- Marita
Marita
22,097 corpus weight
- Marthe
Marthe
22,096 corpus weight
- martinus
martinus
22,095 corpus weight
- Marya
Marya
22,093 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Marthe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Marthe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Marthe is uncommon English at frequency #77,905 among 4,057 “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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).