Remarry

Definition: Remarry

Remarry

Verb

1. Marry, not for the first time; "After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart".

Date "remarry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Modern Usage: Remarry

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Why Women Remarry (1923)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Commercial Usage: Remarry

Domain	Title
Books	Annulment: Your Chance to Remarry Within the Catholic Church: A Step-by-Step Guide Using the New Code of Canon Law (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Non-Fiction Usage: Remarry

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Israel and the occupied territories	Consequently, there are thousands of so-called "agunot" in the country who are unable to remarry or have legitimate children because their husbands either have disappeared or refused to grant a divorce. (references)
Human Rights	Bangladesh	In January the High Court intervened when newspapers reported a case in which a man refused to remarry his wife after she was forced to undergo a sham marriage at the insistence of a local village religious leader under a fatwa (less educated religious leaders sometimes believe that when a man ritualistically divorces his wife in anger, per Islamic rules, that he cannot take her back or remarry her unless she has a intervening marriage; however, ritualistic divorces that occur in anger are not valid under Islamic or civil law). (references)
Women	Chile	The law permits legal separation but not divorce, so those who wish to remarry must seek annulments. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top

Usage Frequency: Remarry

"Remarry" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Remarry" is used about 54 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.78%	42	52,864
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	5.56%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	54	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Remarry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
remarry	12
annulment catholic chance church remarry within	6
50 after man percentage remarry who	5
50 man over remarry who	2
widower and remarry	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translations: Remarry

Language		Translations for "remarry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		сключвам нов брак, омъжвам се пак, оженвам се пак. (various references)

Finnish		mennä uusiin naimisiin (marry again). (various references)

French		se remarier. (various references)

German		wieder heiraten. (various references)

Greek		ξαναπαντρεύομαι, νυμφεύομαι πάλι, πανδρεύομαι πάλι. (various references)

Hungarian		újból megházasodik (to remarry), újból férjhez megy (to remarry). (various references)

Italian		risposarsi (to marry for the second time), risposare. (various references)

Manx		aaphoosey. (various references)

Pig Latin		emarryray

Portuguese		casar novamente. (various references)

Romanian		recãsãtori, se recãsãtori. (various references)

Russian		вступать в новый брак, вступить в новый брак. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponovo se venčati. (various references)

Spanish		volver a casarse, casarse en segundas nupcias. (various references)

Swedish		gifta om sig med. (various references)

Thai		แต่งงานใหม่. (various references)

Ukranian		одружуватися вдруге. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Derivations & Misspellings: Remarry

Derivations
	Words beginning with "remarry": remarrying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Remarry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Leymarie, Reimar, remar, Renory, romary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Rhyming with "Remarry"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "remarry" (pronounced rēme"rē)
4	-m e" r ē	marry, merry.
3	-e" r ē	airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, Canary, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, eyrie, fairy, ferry, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, Jerry, Kerry, nary, Parry, Perry, prairie, scary, sherry, skerry, Tarry, Terry, unwary, vary, very, wary, wherry.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top

Anagrams: Remarry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-r-r-y"
	-1 letter: marrer.
	-2 letters: armer, marry, merry, rarer, rearm, yarer.
	-3 letters: aery, army, eyra, mare, rare, ream, rear, yare, year.
	-4 letters: are, arm, aye, ear, era, err, mae, mar, may, ram, ray, rem, rya, rye, yam, yar, yea.
	-5 letters: ae, am, ar, ay, em, er, ma, me, my, re, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-r-r-y"
	+3 letters: intermarry, merrymaker, preprimary, remarrying.
	+4 letters: gerrymander, merrymakers, reformatory.
	+5 letters: gerrymanders, performatory, remuneratory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.