among
a·mong/əˈmʌŋ/preposition
among is spelled A-M-O-N-G, 2 syllables: a·mong. The wrong spelling people search most is amung: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Among is a preposition meaning “Of a person or thing: in the midst of and surrounded by (other people or things)”.
How many letters and syllables are in among?
| Letters | 5: A-M-O-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: a·mong |
| In writing | 204 times per million words; the 494th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, amung, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell among?
Among is spelled A-M-O-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for among in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is among?
Among appears 204 times per million words in written English, the 494th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce among?
- US /əˈmʌŋ/
- /əˈmɜŋ/
- /əˈmɘ̞ŋ/
Among has 2 syllables, split a·mong in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-among.wav, En-us-among.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with among
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with among?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as among from its last stressed vowel (/ʌŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mango, ngoma.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of among
- amonge
- amoung
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does among mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
Of a person or thing: in the midst of and surrounded by (other people or things).
to put the cat among the pigeons
- 2
Associated with or living alongside (other people or things).
How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
- 3
Belonging to (a group comprising similar people or things).
He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
- 4
Distinct in some way from (other members of a group); specifically, superior or pre-eminent compared to (other members of a group).
- 5
Originally, in the course of; during; now, in the circumstances or context of.
- 6
Distributed or divided between (members of a group).
- 7
Done jointly by (two or more people).
- 8
In the general custom or opinion of (members of a group).
adverb
- 1
obsoleteAlong with (someone or something); together.
- 2
obsoleteAt the same time, all the while, meanwhile.
- 3
obsoleteIn addition, beside.
- 4
obsoleteChiefly with contrasting adjectives or adverbs: from time to time, now and then; also, here and there.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Among in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of a person or thing: in the midst of and surrounded by (other people or things):
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.