montgomery
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "montgomery", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "montgomery" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "montgomery" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Montgomery is aEnglishname. It means: A surname from Old French. Pronounced /məntˈɡʌməɹi/. It ranks #8,067 in English word frequency.
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| Headword | Montgomery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | /məntˈɡʌməɹi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for Montgomery is 10 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /məntˈɡʌməɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,067 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 26 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Montgomery, with forms such as "mmontgomery", "mnotgomery", and "mongtomery". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gom… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Montgomery, spelled M-O-N-T-G-O-M-E-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A surname from Old French.
- 2Bernard Montgomery (Monty), a British army officer.
- 3A male given name transferred from the surname.
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- 23A neighbourhood in north-west Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 24A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, formerly the county town of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO2296).
- 25A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
- 26Former name of Sahiwal, a city in Punjab, Pakistan.
Etymology
From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmontgomery,mnotgomery,mongtomery,monntgomery,montggomery,montgmoery,montgoemry,montgomerry,montgomeryy,montgomeyr,montgommery,montgomrey,montogmery,monttgomery,motngomery,omntgomery
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Misspelling Variants of "Montgomery"
Frequency rank: #8,067 in English
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