Skip to main content
PlainSpell

amount

/əˈmaʊnt/noun, verb

amount is spelled A-M-O-U-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is ammount: about 280 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Amount is a noun meaning “The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…”. The plural of amount is amounts.

How many letters and syllables are in amount?

Letters6: A-M-O-U-N-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing135 times per million words; the 770th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, ammount, about 280 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 amount?

Amount is spelled A-M-O-U-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for amount in either form.

amountthe right spelling3,190 searches a month
ammountan extra m280 searches a month
amouta missing n30 searches a month

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 amount?

Amount appears 135 times per million words in written English, the 770th 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 amount?

  • /əˈmaʊnt/

Amount has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-amount.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with amount?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as amount.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: mantou, outman.

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 amount

  • amounts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • amounting participle, present
  • amounted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does amount mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

    The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.

  2. 2

    A quantity or volume.

    Pour a small amount of water into the dish.

  3. 3

    nonstandardproscribedThe number (the sum) of elements in a set.

verb

  1. 1

    To total or evaluate.

    The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.

  2. 2

    To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.

    He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo go up; to ascend.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate amount?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of amount: amt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Amount in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmontant, somme (total or sum of items), quantité (quantity or volume), monter (to total or evaluate), correspondre (to be the same as)
GermanAnzahl, Menge, Betrag (total or sum of items), sich belaufen auf, betragen (to total or evaluate)
Portuguesequantidade, quantia (total or sum of items), atingir, importar a, chegar a (to total or evaluate)
Spanishcantidad, monto, montante, importe (total or sum of items), cuantía (quantity or volume), equivaler (to total or evaluate)

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 amount come from?

From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after amount