# multitude

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/ · frequency rank #13,198

## Definitions
1. A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
2. The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **multitudes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/multitude-vs-multitudes)

## Common misspellings (13)
`mlutitude`, `mmultitude`, `mulittude`, `mulltitude`, `multitdue`, `multittude`, `multitudde`, `multitued`, `multiutde`, `multtitude`, `multtiude`, `mutlitude`, `umltitude`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/multitude