Meriam
"meriam" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Meriam” is uncommon English (frequency #91,793 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,793
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meriam · Meriam · English
Meriam · rank #91,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,793
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mercurio
Nearest frequency peer: Mercurio (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Meriam”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Meaux
Meaux
8,212 corpus weight
- menton
menton
8,210 corpus weight
- Mercurio
Mercurio
8,209 corpus weight
- Meriam
Meriam
8,208 corpus weight
- Merovingian
Merovingian
8,207 corpus weight
- metaphysica…
metaphysically
8,203 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Meriam” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meriam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Meriam” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Meriam is uncommon English at frequency #91,793 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Meriam, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mer (“Murray Island”), off the northern coast of Australia. The correct English form is Meriam, spelled M-E-R-I-A-M.
Definition
- 1A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Meriam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Meriams believed in "Bomai", a shape-shifting sea spirit, who had come to them as an octopus and united the eight island tribes under his watchful eyes.
Etymology
From Mer (“Murray Island”), off the northern coast of Australia.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.