maru
/ˈmɑɹu/noun
maru is spelled M-A-R-U: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Maru, the name). As a noun, maru means “A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maru is marus.
How many letters and syllables are in maru?
| Letters | 4: M-A-R-U |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 maru?
Maru appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Maru, 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 maru?
- UK /ˈmɑːɹuː/
- UK /ˈmaɹuː/
- US /ˈmɑɹu/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with maru?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as maru (/ɑɹu/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: amur, arum, mura.
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 maru
- marus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does maru mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.
the Nippon Maru
- 2
colloquialA semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
- 3
A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does maru come from?
From Japanese 丸(まる) (maru, “circle; suffix used for ship names”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).