marten

Other forms of marten

plural

martens·

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 marten

What does marten mean?

marten means "agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels".

How many syllables are in marten?

marten has 2 syllables: mar-ten. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹtən/.

What is another word for marten?

Close synonyms include marten cat. 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 marten a common word?

marten 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.

What rhymes with marten?

1 word rhymes with marten. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.