marry

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The English entry for marry is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmæɹ.ɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,637 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for marry, with forms such as "amrry", "marryy", and "maryr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "may", "Mary", "mars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (márya… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is marry, spelled M-A-R-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.