monolingual
"monolingual" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“monolingual” is uncommon English (frequency #62,336 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,336
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
Corpus desk
Index EN-monolingual · monolingual · English
monolingual · rank #62,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,336
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Moffatt
Nearest frequency peer: Moffatt (-2 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 “monolingual”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Moffatt
Moffatt
37,667 corpus weight
- monolingual
monolingual
37,665 corpus weight
- morass
morass
37,662 corpus weight
- morena
morena
37,661 corpus weight
- Mozambican
Mozambican
37,660 corpus weight
- MTP
MTP
37,657 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “monolingual” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monolingual |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “monolingual” in English
Rare enough to double-check
monolingual is uncommon English at frequency #62,336 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.".
monolingual doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mono- + lingual. The correct English form is monolingual, spelled M-O-N-O-L-I-N-G-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how monolingual appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.
Etymology
From mono- + lingual.
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).