merchandise
mer·chan·dise/ˈmɝ.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/noun, verb
merchandise is spelled M-E-R-C-H-A-N-D-I-S-E, 3 syllables: mer·chan·dise. The wrong spelling people search most is mechandise: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 303 of all searches for the word. Merchandise is a noun meaning “Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale”. The plural of merchandise is merchandises.
How many letters and syllables are in merchandise?
| Letters | 11: M-E-R-C-H-A-N-D-I-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: mer·chan·dise |
| In writing | 8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mechandise, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell merchandise?
Merchandise is spelled M-E-R-C-H-A-N-D-I-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 304 of the searches for merchandise in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is merchandise?
Merchandise appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 merchandise?
- UK /ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/
- UK /-daɪz/
- US /ˈmɝ.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/
As a verb (“To engage in trade; to carry on commerce”): /ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪz/, /ˈmɝt͡ʃəndaɪz/.
Merchandise has 3 syllables, split mer·chan·dise in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-merchandise.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of merchandise
- merchandises plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- mdse
- merchandising participle, present
- merchandised participle, past
- merchandize US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does merchandise mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
Good business depends on having good merchandise.
- 2
Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
- 3
archaicA commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
- 4
archaicThe act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
verb
- 1
archaicTo engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
- 2
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
- 3
archaicTo engage in the trade of.
- 4
To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
- 5
To promote as if for sale.
The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate merchandise?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of merchandise: Merch., mdse, mdse..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Merchandise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense goods offered for sale:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | marchandise, bien |
| German | Ware, Waren, Gut, Handelsgut, Handelsware |
| Portuguese | mercadoria |
| Spanish | mercancías, mercaderías |
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.