mone
"mone" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mone” is uncommon English (frequency #54,947 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,947
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To admonish; advise; explain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mone · mone · English
mone · rank #54,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,947
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monocle
Nearest frequency peer: monocle (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “mone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- misfire
misfire
45,058 corpus weight
- Mishnah
Mishnah
45,057 corpus weight
- mitotic
mitotic
45,056 corpus weight
- mone
mone
45,054 corpus weight
- monocle
monocle
45,053 corpus weight
- monopolize
monopolize
45,052 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mone is uncommon English at frequency #54,947 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To admonish; advise; explain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mone, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell… The correct English form is mone, spelled M-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1To admonish; advise; explain.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).
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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