margin

Other forms of margin

plural

margins·

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 margin

What does margin mean?

margin means "the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in margin?

margin has 2 syllables: mar-gin. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹdʒən/.

What is another word for margin?

Close synonyms include border, perimeter, security deposit, gross profit, gross profit margin. 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 margin a common word?

margin is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.