mountain range

noun

"mountain-range" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“mountain range” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.

Corpus desk

Index EN-mountain-range · mountain range · English

mountain range · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for mountain range
PropertyValue
Headwordmountain range
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “mountain range” in English

mountain rangesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mountain range is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mountain range, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From mountain + range. The correct English form is mountain range, spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -R-A-N-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mountain range appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. For the first 60 miles from Padang Besar, the railway passes through a succession of rice fields, with villages at regular intervals, but then crosses a jungle-clad mountain range to reach the west coast.

Etymology

From mountain + range.

Synonyms

Note: Names of mountain ranges often simply use the plural of a name for an individual mountain: alpshighlandshillsmountainsetc. See Thesaurus:mountain. Alsoin informal usage that part is often omitted entirelyand the first part pluralized: the Rocky Mountains can be called the Rockies.mountain chainmountain rangerange

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mountain range"?
"mountain range" is spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -R-A-N-G-E.
What does "mountain range" mean?
As a noun, "mountain range" means: A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
What is the origin of the word "mountain range"?
From mountain + range. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list