amount
/əˈmaʊnt/
"amount" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amount” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #760 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #760
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amount |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈmaʊnt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amount” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for amount is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈmaʊnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #760 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for amount, with forms such as "ammount", "amonut", and "amounnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "aunt", "amour", "around", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *món-tis Proto-Italic *monts Latin mōns Old French mont Old French amont Old French amonterbor. Middle English amounten English amo… The correct English form is amount, spelled A-M-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- 2A quantity or volume.
- 3The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *món-tis Proto-Italic *monts Latin mōns Old French mont Old French amont Old French amonterbor. Middle English amounten English amount 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”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammount,amonut,amounnt,amountt,amoutn,amuont,aomunt,maount
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amount - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “amount”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-O-U-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈmaʊnt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “aunt” - see the side-by-side comparison. amount vs aunt
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.