marry off
"marry-off" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marry off” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To successfully arrange the marriage of someone, especially a relative.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marry-off · marry off · English
marry off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marry off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marry off” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marry off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To successfully arrange the marriage of someone, especially a relative.".
marry off has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is marry off, spelled M-A-R-R-Y- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To successfully arrange the marriage of someone, especially a relative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marry off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mark Warshavsky, the composer of the classic "Oifn Pripitchik" wrote the melody now well-known from the conclusion of the wedding festivities, in which the parents marrying off their last child, sit with garlands on their heads, while family and friends dance around them.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.