MARISH

Definitions: MARISH

MARISH

Adjective

1. Growing in marshes.

2. Moory; fenny; boggy.

Noun

1. Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "MARISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

"MARISH" is a common misspelling or typo for: garish, marsh, marshy, parish.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Marsh	Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: MARISH

Etymologies containing "MARISH": marsh. (references)

Non-English Usage: "MARISH" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (with, with him).

"MARISH" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "MARISH" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (common)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "MARISH": night-marish.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "MARISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Portuguese		títere (pawn, puppet), pântano (bog, draws, Fen, fen land, flush, marsh, mere, moor, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, runs, sloughs, sough, swamp, swampy land, wetland). (various references)

Vietnamese		lầy lội (boggy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "MARISH": marishes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "MARISH": nightmarish. (additional references)
	Words containing "MARISH": nightmarishly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "MARISH" (pronounced me"rish)
4	-e" r i sh	bearish, garish, perish.
3	-r i sh	boorish, impoverish, moorish, nightmarish, parish.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ihrams.
	Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-r-s"
	-1 letter: amirs, hairs, harms, ihram, mairs, marsh, simar.
	-2 letters: aims, airs, amir, amis, arms, hair, hams, harm, mair, mars, mash, mirs, rami, rams, rash, rias, rims, sari, sham, shim, shri, sima.
	-3 letters: aim, air, ais, ami, arm, ars, ash, ham, has, him, his, ism, mar, mas, mir, mis, rah, ram, ras, ria, rim, sha.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-r-s"
	+1 letter: charism, chimars, chrisma, dirhams, harmins, kashmir, midrash, mihrabs, mishear, mohairs, rammish, thairms, thirams, warmish.
	+2 letters: aphorism, archaism, charisma, charisms, chimeras, chrismal, harmines, isarithm, kashmirs, marchesi, marishes, marshier, misheard, mishears, morphias, samphire, semihard, seraphim, trampish.
	+3 letters: anarchism, aphorisms, archaisms, armchairs, arythmias, camphires, chairmans, chimaeras, choriambs, fisherman, hailstorm, hairworms, hamartias, hamstring, harmonics, harmonies, harmonise, histogram, hymnaries, isarithms, lathyrism, maharanis, maharishi, mariachis, marshiest, midrashic, midrashim, midrashot, mischarge, mishanter, misphrase, omniarchs, rhodamins, samphires, scrimshaw, seraphims, vampirish.
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