marchioness

Other forms of marchioness

plural

marchionesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marchioness

What does marchioness mean?

marchioness means "the wife or widow of a marquis". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marchioness?

marchioness has 3 syllables: mar-chio-ness. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹʃənɪs/.

What is another word for marchioness?

Close synonyms include marquise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marchioness a common word?

marchioness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.