mars
/ˈmɑɹz/verb, noun
mars is spelled M-A-R-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,521st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, mars means “third-person singular simple present indicative of mar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in mars?
| Letters | 4: M-A-R-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,521st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 mars?
Mars appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,521st 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 mars?
- US /ˈmɑɹz/
- UK /ˈmɑːz/
Mars has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mars.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mars?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mars from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹz/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: arms, rams, rasm.
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).
What does mars mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of mar
noun
- 1
plural of mar
noun
- 1
rareGules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
- 2
obsoleteIron.
- 3
Alternative form of Mas.
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of multicast address resolution server.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).