mountain cranberry
/ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/
"mountain-cranberry" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mountain cranberry” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)l
| 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) |
Where “mountain cranberry” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for mountain cranberry is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -C-R-A-N-B-E-R-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.