multitude
mul·ti·tude/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/noun
multitude is spelled M-U-L-T-I-T-U-D-E, 3 syllables: mul·ti·tude. The wrong spelling people search most is multitide: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 94 of all searches for the word. Multitude is a noun meaning “A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion”. The plural of multitude is multitudes.
How many letters and syllables are in multitude?
| Letters | 9: M-U-L-T-I-T-U-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: mul·ti·tude |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, multitide, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 multitude?
Multitude is spelled M-U-L-T-I-T-U-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 94 of the searches for multitude 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 multitude?
Multitude appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 multitude?
- UK /ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/
- UK [-t͡ʃ-]
- /ˈmʊltɪt͡ʃuːd/
Multitude has 3 syllables, split mul·ti·tude in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Rho9998-multitude.wav, En-us-multitude.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of multitude
- multitudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does multitude mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- 2
The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Multitude in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | multitude |
| German | Vielzahl, Menge , Menschenmenge, Volk |
| Portuguese | multidão, massa, povo |
| Spanish | multitud |
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 multitude come from?
From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multitūdō (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- + -itude.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).