months
/mʌnθs/noun
months is spelled M-O-N-T-H-S. The wrong spelling people search most is monthes: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 64 of all searches for the word. Months is a noun meaning “plural of month”.
How many letters and syllables are in months?
| Letters | 6: M-O-N-T-H-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 224 times per million words; the 447th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, monthes, about 70 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 months?
Months is spelled M-O-N-T-H-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 64 of the searches for months 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 months?
Months appears 224 times per million words in written English, the 447th 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 months?
- US /mʌnθs/
- /mʌnts/
- /mʌns/
Months 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-us-months.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does months mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of month
- 2
obsoleteA person's period; menstrual discharge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).