# montage

> English word · Noun · IPA /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/ · frequency rank #18,898

## Definitions
1. A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
2. The art or process of doing this.
3. A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.

## Etymology
, 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **monte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-monte)
- **Montana** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-montana)
- **Montagu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-montagu)
- **Montauk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-montauk)
- **mortgage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-mortgage)
- **Montague** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-montague)
- **Montaigne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/montage-vs-montaigne)
- **manage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/manage-vs-montage)

## Common misspellings (10)
`mmontage`, `mnotage`, `monatge`, `monntage`, `montaeg`, `montagge`, `montgae`, `monttage`, `motnage`, `omntage`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/montage