month
/mʌnθ/noun
month is spelled M-O-N-T-H. The wrong spelling people search most is mounth: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 36 of all searches for the word. Month is a noun meaning “A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon”. The plural of month is months.
How many letters and syllables are in month?
| Letters | 5: M-O-N-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 178 times per million words; the 565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mounth, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell month?
Month is spelled M-O-N-T-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 36 of the searches for month in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is month?
Month appears 178 times per million words in written English, the 565th 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 month?
- /mʌnθ/
- /mʊnt̪/
- /mʊnt/
Month has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-a_month.ogg, En-us-month.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of month
- months plural
- moneth
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does month mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
July is my favourite month.
- 2
A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronna
- 3
obsoleteA woman's period; menstrual discharge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate month?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of month: m, mm, mth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Month in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense period into which a year is divided:
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 month come from?
From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).