montage
mont·age/mɑnˈtɑʒ/noun, verb
montage is spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables (mont·age). It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, montage means “A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of montage is montages.
How many letters and syllables are in montage?
| Letters | 7: M-O-N-T-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mont·age |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 montage?
Montage appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 montage?
- UK /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/
- UK /ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/
- US /mɑnˈtɑʒ/
Montage has 2 syllables, split mont·age in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-montage.ogg, En-au-montage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with montage?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as montage from its last stressed vowel (/ɑʒ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: magneto, megaton.
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 montage
- montages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- montaging participle, present
- montaged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does montage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage
- 2
The art or process of doing this.
Near-synonyms: collage, bricolage
- 3
A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.
verb
- 1
To combine into, or depict as, a montage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Montage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 montage come from?
, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).