mart
/mɑɹt/noun
mart is spelled M-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Mart, the name). As a noun, mart means “A shop, a store, a market” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mart is marts.
How many letters and syllables are in mart?
| Letters | 4: M-A-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd 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 mart?
Mart appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Mart, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce mart?
- US /mɑɹt/
- UK /mɑːt/
Mart 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mélange_a_trois-mart.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mart?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mart from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tram.
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 mart
- marts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- marting participle, present
- marted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mart mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSA shop, a store, a market.
FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
- 2
A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
- 3
obsoleteA bargain.
- 4
A marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
- 5
A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
- 6
Salt beef.
- 7
obsoleteA battle; a contest.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
- 2
obsoleteTo traffic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does mart come from?
From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).