marsh
/mɑɹʃ/noun
marsh is spelled M-A-R-S-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, marsh means “An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of marsh is marshes.
How many letters and syllables are in marsh?
| Letters | 5: M-A-R-S-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th 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 marsh?
Marsh appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th 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 marsh?
- UK /mɑːʃ/
- US /mɑɹʃ/
- Australia /mɐːʃ/
Marsh 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-marsh.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with marsh?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as marsh from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹʃ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sharm, shram.
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 marsh
- marshes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does marsh mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants.
Many animals live in the marsh.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Marsh in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense area of low, wet land:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | marais |
| German | Marsch, Moor, Sumpf, Sumpfgebiet, Sumpfland, Bruch |
| Portuguese | marisma, pântano, alverca |
| Spanish | ciénaga, marisma, pantano, ciénega, marjal, almarjal |
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 marsh come from?
From Middle English mersch, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) + -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).