more
/moɹ/determiner, adverb, pronoun, noun, verb, adjective
more is spelled M-O-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is omre: about 260 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 64 of all searches for the word. More is a determiner meaning “Additional; further”.
How many letters and syllables are in more?
| Letters | 4: M-O-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2,291 times per million words; the 51st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, omre, about 260 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell more?
More is spelled M-O-R-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for more 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 more?
More appears 2,291 times per million words in written English, the 51st 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 more?
- UK /mɔː/
- British /moː/
- US /moɹ/
More 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-more.ogg, En-us-more.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with more
Sounds like: maw (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: moe.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with more?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as more from its last stressed vowel (/oɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: omer, mero, moer.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of more
- mo
- mo'
- moh
- moar
- mores plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- moring participle, present
- mored participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does more mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
- 2
comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
- 3
Additional; further.
If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
- 4
Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.
adverb
- 1
To a greater degree or extent.
I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
- 2
Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.
- 3
In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- 4
proscribedUsed in addition to an inflected comparative form.
I was more better at English than you.
pronoun
- 1
A greater number or quantity (of something).
We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.
- 2
An extra or additional quantity (of something).
There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA carrot; a parsnip.
- 2
A root; stock.
- 3
A plant; flower; shrub.
verb
- 1
To root up.
adjective
- 1
comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.
- 2
comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
More in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | plus, mieux (Saint-Étienne) , davantage de |
| German | mehr |
| Portuguese | mais |
| Spanish | más , en más |
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 more come from?
From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).