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mount

/maʊnt/noun, verb

mount is spelled M-O-U-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mount means “A hill or mountain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mount is mounts.

How many letters and syllables are in mount?

Letters5: M-O-U-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is mount?

Mount appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 mount?

  • US /maʊnt/
  • US [maʊnt]
  • US [maʊnʔ]

Mount 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-mount.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with mount?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mount from its last stressed vowel (/aʊnt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: notum.

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 mount

  • mounts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • mounting participle, present
  • mounted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mount mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A hill or mountain.

  2. 2

    Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.

    the mount of Jupiter

  3. 3

    obsoleteA bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.

  4. 4

    obsoleteA bank; a fund.

  5. 5

    A green hillock in the base of a shield.

  6. 6

    An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.

    The rider climbed onto his mount.

  7. 7

    A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.

  8. 8

    A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.

    The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.

  9. 9

    obsoleteA rider in a cavalry unit or division.

    The General said he has 2,000 mounts.

  10. 10

    A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.

  11. 11

    A signal for mounting a horse.

  12. 12

    A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.

  13. 13

    The act of getting onto the apparatus.

verb

  1. 1

    To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

    to mount stairs

  2. 2

    To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

    The rider mounted his horse.

  3. 3

    To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.

  5. 5

    To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.

  6. 6

    rareTo rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.

  7. 7

    To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.

    to mount a mailbox on a post

  8. 8

    To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate mount?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of mount: Mt., mt..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Mount in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishmonte, peñón (mountain), montura, caballería, cabalgadura (horse), montar (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to…)
Frenchmonture (horse), éminence (palmistry: prominence), support (a mounting), cavalier (rider in cavalry), monter, grimper (to get upon; to ascend; to climb)
GermanReitpferd, Reittier (horse), Auffälligkeit, erhöhte Stelle (palmistry: prominence), Halterung, Halter (a mounting)
Portuguesemontaria (horse), montar (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to…), cavaleiro (rider in cavalry), subir (to get upon; to ascend; to climb)

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 mount come from?

From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“to project, to protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons. Not related to mound.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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