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market

mar·ket/ˈmɑɹkɪt/noun, verb

market is spelled M-A-R-K-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables (mar·ket). It appears 195 times per million words in written English, the 516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, market means “A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of market is markets.

How many letters and syllables are in market?

Letters6: M-A-R-K-E-T
Syllables2: mar·ket
In writing195 times per million words; the 516th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is market?

Market appears 195 times per million words in written English, the 516th 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 market?

  • UK /ˈmɑːkɪt/
  • US /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
  • US /ˈmɑɹkət/

Market has 2 syllables, split mar·ket in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-market.ogg, En-us-market.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of market

  • markets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • marketing participle, present
  • marketed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does market mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

    The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.

  2. 2

    A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.

    This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.

  3. 3

    Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.

    Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.

  4. 4

    A group of potential or current customers for one's product.

    We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.

  5. 5

    A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.

    Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.

  6. 6

    A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

    The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.

  7. 7

    The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.

  8. 8

    The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.

    Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.

verb

  1. 1

    To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

    We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.

  2. 2

    To promote for or as if for sale.

  3. 3

    To sell.

    We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!

  4. 4

    To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

  5. 5

    To shop in a market; to attend a market.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate market?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of market: Mkt., mkt..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Market in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmarché (gathering for trading), commercialiser (to make available and promote)
GermanMarkt (gathering for trading), vermarkten (to make available and promote), Marktplatz (spacious site for trading), Markt- (used attributively)
Portuguesefeira (gathering for trading), mercar, marquetear (to make available and promote), mercado (spacious site for trading), compra (total sum of trading)
Spanishponer al mercado, comercializar (to make available and promote), mercado, marketa, marquete (spacious site for trading), de/del mercado (used attributively)

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 market come from?

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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