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 May 6, 2026) - plural of quotation mark
| 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) |
Where “quotation marks” sits in English frequency
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
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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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Using “quotation marks”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-O-T-A-T-I-O-N- -M-A-R-K-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kwəʊˈteɪʃən mɑːks/ (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.