marriage
[ˈmærɪɗʒ]
The verdict
“marriage” is uncommon German (frequency #69,488 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,488
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (die) Ehe
Corpus desk
Index DE-marriage · marriage · German
marriage · rank #69,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,488
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH marktwirtscha…
Nearest frequency peer: marktwirtschaftlichen (-1 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 “marriage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Malchow
Malchow
30,517 corpus weight
- Marketings
Marketings
30,515 corpus weight
- marktwirtsc…
marktwirtschaftlichen
30,514 corpus weight
- marriage
marriage
30,513 corpus weight
- Marshmallow
Marshmallow
30,512 corpus weight
- Massenarbei…
Massenarbeitslosigkeit
30,511 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “marriage” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marriage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmærɪɗʒ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marriage” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
marriage is uncommon German at frequency #69,488 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmærɪɗʒ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(die) Ehe".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for marriage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is marriage, spelled M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1(die) Ehe
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marriage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 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.