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say it: mahrsh
marsh is a noun meaning "low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water". It carries 3 recorded senses.
low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
“thousands of acres of marshland”
“the fens of eastern England”
United States painter (1898-1954)
New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for marsh come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.