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marrying

mar·ry·ingUK /ˈmæɹi.ɪŋ/noun, verb

marrying is spelled M-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G: 8 letters and 3 syllables (mar·ry·ing). It appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, marrying means “A marriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of marrying is marryings.

How many letters and syllables are in marrying?

Letters8: M-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G
Syllables3: mar·ry·ing
In writing5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is marrying?

Marrying appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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 marrying?

  • UK /ˈmæɹi.ɪŋ/
  • British /ˈmaɹɪj.ɪŋ/
  • /ˈmæɹi.ɪŋ/

Marrying has 3 syllables, split mar·ry·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-marrying.wav, En-us-carrying.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with marrying?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as marrying from its last stressed vowel (/æɹiɪŋ/, 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 marrying

  • marryings plural

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

What does marrying mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A marriage.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of marry (a form of marry)

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

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