marines
noun, verb
marines is spelled M-A-R-I-N-E-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “marine corps vs marines” about 320 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, marines means “plural of marine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in marines?
| Letters | 7: M-A-R-I-N-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
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 common is marines?
Marines appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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 marines?
Marines has 2 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).
Words people confuse with marines
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: marine corps.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with marines?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as marines.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: remains, seminar.
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).
What does marines mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of marine
- 2
Alternative form of marine corps.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of marine
noun
- 1
Alternative form of marines.
- 2
Alternative form of marine corps.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).