merrin
"merrin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“merrin” is uncommon English (frequency #60,953 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,953
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A species of nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata, of NSW and Qld, with distinctive bridle-like markings.
Corpus desk
Index EN-merrin · merrin · English
merrin · rank #60,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,953
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Merdeka
Nearest frequency peer: Merdeka (-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 “merrin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mercator
Mercator
39,050 corpus weight
- Merdeka
Merdeka
39,049 corpus weight
- merrin
merrin
39,048 corpus weight
- Meru
Meru
39,047 corpus weight
- meshing
meshing
39,045 corpus weight
- metta
metta
39,044 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “merrin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merrin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “merrin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
merrin is uncommon English at frequency #60,953 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A species of nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata, of NSW and Qld, with distinctive bridle-like markings.".
Zero misspellings are on record for merrin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Yari Yari, a Kulinic language of southern Australian. The correct English form is merrin, spelled M-E-R-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1A species of nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata, of NSW and Qld, with distinctive bridle-like markings.
Etymology
From Yari Yari, a Kulinic language of southern Australian.
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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