monton
noun
monton is a noun meaning “A Mexican unit of weight for ore, varying from 1,800 to 3,200 Spanish pounds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-N-T-O-N, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of monton is montons.
What does monton mean?
noun
- 1
archaicA heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
- 2
A Mexican unit of weight for ore, varying from 1,800 to 3,200 Spanish pounds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of monton
- montons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is monton?
Monton appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).
Where does monton come from?
From Spanish montón (“head”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).