quotation marks
/kwəʊˈteɪʃən mɑːks/
"quotation-marks" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quotation marks” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of quotation mark
Corpus desk
Index EN-quotation-marks · quotation marks · English
quotation marks · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" 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 | quotation marks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kwəʊˈteɪʃən mɑːks/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quotation marks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quotation marks is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /kwəʊˈteɪʃən mɑːks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of quotation mark".
quotation marks has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is quotation marks, spelled Q-U-O-T-A-T-I-O-N- -M-A-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of quotation mark
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.