marquesas
[maɾˈkesas]
The verdict
“marquesas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,509 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,509
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de marquesa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-marquesas · marquesas · Spanish
marquesas · rank #96,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,509
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,142
- PHOTO-FINISH mareros
Nearest frequency peer: mareros (-2 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “marquesas”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- marchitarse
marchitarse
3,496 corpus weight
- mareados
mareados
3,495 corpus weight
- mareros
mareros
3,494 corpus weight
- marquesas
marquesas
3,492 corpus weight
- martilleo
martilleo
3,490 corpus weight
- masturbas
masturbas
3,488 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “marquesas” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marquesas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maɾˈkesas] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marquesas” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
marquesas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,509 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maɾˈkesas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de marquesa.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marquesas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is marquesas, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-S-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de marquesa.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.