Virgin Mary
"virgin-mary" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Virgin Mary” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Virgin Mary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Virgin Mary” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Virgin Mary is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Virgin Mary, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From virgin + Mary, from the belief that Mary was still a virgin when she bore Christ. The correct English form is Virgin Mary, spelled V-I-R-G-I-N- -M-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Etymology
From virgin + Mary, from the belief that Mary was still a virgin when she bore Christ.
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.
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Using “Virgin Mary”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-I-R-G-I-N- -M-A-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.