mountain cranberry
/ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/
"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
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mountain cranberry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mountain cranberry” in English
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
- 1Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)l
- 2Mountain bearberry (Actous alpina (syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).
Synonyms
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.