mol
/mol/noun
mol is spelled M-O-L: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Mol, the name). People search “mol vs mole” about 320 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, mol means “Alternative spelling of mole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mol is mols.
How many letters and syllables are in mol?
| Letters | 3: M-O-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 common is mol?
Mol appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Mol, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce mol?
- UK /məʊl/
- US /mol/
- US /moʊl/
Mol has one syllable (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-mole.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with mol
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: mole.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with mol?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mol from its last stressed vowel (/ol/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: olm.
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 mol
- mols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mol mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
datedAlternative spelling of mole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does mol come from?
Borrowed from German Mol (1897).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).