marriage
marr·iage/ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/noun
marriage is spelled M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E, 2 syllables: marr·iage. The wrong spelling people search most is marraige: about 430 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Marriage is a noun meaning “The state of being married”. The plural of marriage is marriages.
How many letters and syllables are in marriage?
| Letters | 8: M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: marr·iage |
| In writing | 81 times per million words; the 1,302nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, marraige, about 430 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 marriage?
Marriage is spelled M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for marriage 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 marriage?
Marriage appears 81 times per million words in written English, the 1,302nd 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 marriage?
- UK /ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/
- /ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/
- /ˈmɛɹɪd͡ʒ/
Marriage has 2 syllables, split marr·iage in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-marriage.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-marriage.wav, En-us-marriage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with marriage?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as marriage from its last stressed vowel (/æɹɪdʒ/, British pronunciation):
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 marriage
- marriages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does marriage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being married.
You should enter marriage for love.
- 2
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
- 3
The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
- 4
The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
- 5
A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
- 6
A close union.
But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
- 7
A joining of two parts.
- 8
A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Marriage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mariage , noces |
| German | Ehe, Heirat , Hochzeit, Eheschließung |
| Portuguese | casamento, matrimónio, matrimônio |
| Spanish | matrimonio , boda, casamiento , coyunda, connubio |
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 marriage come from?
From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).