amongst
a·mongst/əˈmʌŋst/preposition
amongst is spelled A-M-O-N-G-S-T, 2 syllables: a·mongst. The wrong spelling people search most is amoungst: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Amongst is a preposition meaning “Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst”.
How many letters and syllables are in amongst?
| Letters | 7: A-M-O-N-G-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: a·mongst |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, amoungst, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How do you spell amongst?
Amongst is spelled A-M-O-N-G-S-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for amongst 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 amongst?
Amongst appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 amongst?
- US /əˈmʌŋst/
- /əˈmɜŋst/
- /əˈmɘ̞ŋst/
Amongst has 2 syllables, split a·mongst in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-amongst.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with amongst
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).
Forms of amongst
- among
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amongst mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
Janek feels very at ease amongst his friends, but gets incredibly nervous when meeting new people.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amongst in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Used to denote a mingling or intermixing:
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.
Where does amongst come from?
From amongs + -t (excrescent), from among + -s (genitive). By surface analysis, among + -st (excrescent). Root among from Old English ongemang, from on (“in”) + gemang (“assemblage, mingling”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).