monocle
/ˈmɑnəkəl/noun
monocle is spelled M-O-N-O-C-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is monicle: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Monocle is a noun meaning “A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye”. The plural of monocle is monocles.
How many letters and syllables are in monocle?
| Letters | 7: M-O-N-O-C-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, monicle, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell monocle?
Monocle is spelled M-O-N-O-C-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for monocle in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is monocle?
Monocle appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce monocle?
- Canada /ˈmɑnəkəl/
Monocle has 3 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-monocle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of monocle
- monocles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does monocle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
- 2
obsoleteA one-eyed animal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Monocle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a single lens:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does monocle come from?
1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).