# merchandise

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/ · frequency rank #7,941

## Definitions
1. Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
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. A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
4. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

## Etymology
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.

## Common misspellings (17)
`emrchandise`, `mecrhandise`, `mercahndise`, `mercchandise`, `merchadnise`, `merchanddise`, `merchandies`, `merchandisse`, `merchandsie`, `merchanidse`, `merchanndise`, `merchhandise`, `merchnadise`, `merhcandise`, `merrchandise`, `mmerchandise`, `mrechandise`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/merchandise