marijuana
/ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/noun
marijuana is spelled M-A-R-I-J-U-A-N-A. The wrong spelling people search most is marijauna: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 93 of all searches for the word. Marijuana is a noun meaning “The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect”. The plural of marijuana is marijuanas.
How many letters and syllables are in marijuana?
| Letters | 9: M-A-R-I-J-U-A-N-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, marijauna, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell marijuana?
Marijuana is spelled M-A-R-I-J-U-A-N-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 94 of the searches for marijuana in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is marijuana?
Marijuana appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce marijuana?
- US /ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/
- US /ˌmæɹ-/
- US /-ˈhwɑ-/
Marijuana has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-marijuana.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-marijuana.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-marijuana.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with marijuana?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as marijuana from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnə/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of marijuana
- marijuanas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does marijuana mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
After smoking a bowl of that fine marijuana, they ate some brownies.
- 2
The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Marijuana in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | marijuana, marihuana |
| German | Marihuana, Haschisch , Hanf, Cannabis |
| Portuguese | maconha |
| Spanish | marihuana, mariguana, bayer , cáñamo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does marijuana come from?
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish marihuana, from mariguana. First attested in 1874 in the publications of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Altered by influence of a folk etymology involving the proper name María Juana (“Mary Jane”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).