# amount

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈmaʊnt/ · frequency rank #760

## Definitions
1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
2. A quantity or volume.
3. The 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **aunt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amount-vs-aunt)
- **amour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amount-vs-amour)
- **around** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amount-vs-around)
- **amounts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amount-vs-amounts)
- **amounted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amount-vs-amounted)
- **about** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/about-vs-amount)
- **among** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/among-vs-amount)
- **abound** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abound-vs-amount)
- **account** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/account-vs-amount)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ammount`, `amonut`, `amounnt`, `amountt`, `amoutn`, `amuont`, `aomunt`, `maount`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/amount