martinus
"martinus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“martinus” is uncommon English (frequency #77,906 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,906
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of martini.
Corpus desk
Index EN-martinus · martinus · English
martinus · rank #77,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,906
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marthe
Nearest frequency peer: Marthe (-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 “martinus”
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 “martinus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martinus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “martinus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
martinus is uncommon English at frequency #77,906 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of martini.".
No misspelling variants are generated for martinus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Formed by analyzing the -i of martini as the plural form of Latin -us. The correct English form is martinus, spelled M-A-R-T-I-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of martini.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martinus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On their first appearance in May, the Canadian clowns did a 14-minute parody of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar called Rinse the Blood Of My Toga. Wayne, draped in a toga, sidled up to an ancient Roman bistro and said, “Let me have a Martinus.” Shuster, togaed as a bartender, corrected him, “You mean Martini.” Wayne snapped back, “If I want two, I’ll ask for…
An intellectual type we know stopped in at a bar the other day and asked for a martinus. “Don’t you mean a martini?” asked the bartender. Our egghead looked at him coldly. “If I had wanted two,” he said, “I would have asked for them.”
Etymology
Formed by analyzing the -i of martini as the plural form of Latin -us.
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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