monoseme
"monoseme" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“monoseme” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A single semeion or mora.
Corpus desk
Index EN-monoseme · monoseme · English
monoseme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | monoseme |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “monoseme” in English
Rare enough to double-check
monoseme is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
monoseme has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is monoseme, spelled M-O-N-O-S-E-M-E.
Definition
- 1A single semeion or mora.
- 2A monosemous term; a term with one meaning.
- 3An underlying meaning of a word, more general than a sememe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monoseme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme.
In a given poem, a monoseme contains a short vowel of one mora, and a diseme contains two moras.
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.