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monospace

adjective, verb

monospace is spelled M-O-N-O-S-P-A-C-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, monospace means “Of a typeface, having characters with uniform width” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in monospace?

Letters9: M-O-N-O-S-P-A-C-E
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is monospace?

Monospace appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).

What rhymes with monospace?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as monospace.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: moonscape.

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 monospace

  • monospaces present, singular, he/she/it
  • monospacing participle, present
  • monospaced participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does monospace mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a typeface, having characters with uniform width.

verb

  1. 1

    To type, typeset, or design text using a typeface that has the same width for each character.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does monospace come from?

From mono- + space.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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