mountain cranberry

/ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/

//ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi// noun

"mountain-cranberry" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“mountain cranberry” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
18
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)l

Corpus desk

Index EN-mountain-cranberry · mountain cranberry · English

mountain cranberry · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 18 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for mountain cranberry
PropertyValue
Headwordmountain cranberry
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “mountain cranberry” in English

mountain cranberrysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mountain cranberry is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mountain cranberry, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is mountain cranberry, spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -C-R-A-N-B-E-R-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)l
  2. 2
    Mountain bearberry (Actous alpina (syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).

Synonyms

alpine bearberryblack bearberry

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mountain cranberry"?
"mountain cranberry" is spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -C-R-A-N-B-E-R-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/.
What does "mountain cranberry" mean?
As a noun, "mountain cranberry" means: Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)l
How do you pronounce "mountain cranberry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mountain cranberry" is /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mountain cranberry" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list