mountains
/ˈmaʊn.tn̩z/noun
mountains is spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-S. The wrong spelling people search most is montains: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 175 of all searches for the word. Mountains is a noun meaning “mountain range”.
How many letters and syllables are in mountains?
| Letters | 9: M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,992nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, montains, about 60 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 mountains?
Mountains is spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 174 of the searches for mountains 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 mountains?
Mountains appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd 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 mountains?
- /ˈmaʊn.tn̩z/
Mountains has 2 syllables (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-mountains.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does mountains mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of mountain
- 2
mountain range
noun
- 1
plural of Mountain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate mountains?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of mountains: Mts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).