monolithic
/ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/adjective
monolithic is spelled M-O-N-O-L-I-T-H-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is monolite: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 101 of all searches for the word. Monolithic is an adjective meaning “Of or resembling a monolith”.
How many letters and syllables are in monolithic?
| Letters | 10: M-O-N-O-L-I-T-H-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, monolite, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 do you spell monolithic?
Monolithic is spelled M-O-N-O-L-I-T-H-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 101 of the searches for monolithic 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 monolithic?
Monolithic appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th 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 monolithic?
- UK /ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
- US /ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/
Monolithic has 4 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)-Flame,_not_lame-monolithic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with monolithic?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as monolithic from its last stressed vowel (/ɪθɪk/):
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 monolithic
- more monolithic comparative
- most monolithic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does monolithic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or resembling a monolith.
- 2
Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.
- 3
Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
Mainstream culture is hardly the monolithic block that its caricaturization often implies.
- 4
Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.
- 5
Consisting of a single program or codebase.
Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Monolithic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or resembling a monolith:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | monolithique |
| German | monolithisch |
| Portuguese | monolítico |
| Spanish | monolítico |
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 monolithic come from?
From French monolithique. By surface analysis, monolith + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).