Adam Levine loves calling Behati Prinsloo his wife.

The Maroon 5 frontman, who married the Namibian model in Mexico in July, says he uses the word instead of her name as often as possible.

The 35-year-old star told an upcoming episode of 'The Ellen Degeneres Show': ''I use that word right now a lot. I say it for no reason. I say it a lot. Wife, wife, wife. I love it.''

He added: ''I even changed her number in my phone to wife.''

The 'One More Night' hitmaker - who dated a string of models in the past - admits he is smitten with the 25-year-old beauty and is surprised by how much he loves being a married man.

He said: ''I never really thought I would (adore it). It's so trippy. I'm a child. How did this happen?''

The 'Voice' USA mentor recently confessed being married makes him feel more masculine.

He said: ''I think it does change, but in a great way. You feel like a man or something, it's weird.

''The relationship doesn't change, but you feel slightly more masculine. I feel like from a man's perspective ... at the end of the day, if you're with the right person, the guy is supposed to feel like, I think, a little bit more of a man.''

Adam also said he wants to have 100 kids with Behati in the future.

He said: ''We're definitely going to do it. I want to have 100 kids. I want to have more kids than would be socially responsible. I don't know when we're going to do it. We can't do it right now. I think it's absolutely in the works for some future date.''