monic
/ˈmɒn.ɪk/
"monic" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“monic” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of a polynomial whose leading coefficient is one.
Corpus desk
Index EN-monic · monic · English
monic · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmɒn.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “monic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
monic is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmɒn.ɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monic, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mono- + -ic. The correct English form is monic, spelled M-O-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of a polynomial whose leading coefficient is one.
- 2Monomorphic.
- 3Of a morphism: that it is a monomorphism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If a composition (of morphisms) is monic then, by theorem, the pre-composite of it is monic as well.
It is often convenient to view a monic arrow i#58;A#92;rightarrowtailC, defined in Chapter 1, as showing that A is a copy of a part of C, and that i maps the copy on to that part. For example, in Set, the monic arrows are the one-to-one functions and, clearly, if i is one-to-one then A is a copy of a subset of C, namely of the image of i.
Etymology
From mono- + -ic.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.