Maryhill
/ˈmaɹɪhɪl/
"maryhill" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maryhill” is uncommon English (frequency #79,738 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,738
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A northern suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5668).
Corpus desk
Index EN-maryhill · Maryhill · English
Maryhill · rank #79,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,738
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Maronite
Nearest frequency peer: Maronite (-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 “Maryhill”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Maritza
Maritza
20,265 corpus weight
- Maronite
Maronite
20,264 corpus weight
- Maryhill
Maryhill
20,263 corpus weight
- Maung
Maung
20,261 corpus weight
- Mauritian
Mauritian
20,260 corpus weight
- McCallister
McCallister
20,258 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Maryhill” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maryhill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaɹɪhɪl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Maryhill” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Maryhill is uncommon English at frequency #79,738 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈmaɹɪhɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Maryhill has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mary Hill. The correct English form is Maryhill, spelled M-A-R-Y-H-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1A northern suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5668).
- 2A community in Woolwich township, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- 3A census-designated place in Klickitat County, Washington, United States.
- 4A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
Etymology
From Mary Hill.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).