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wont

UK /wʌnt/adjective

wont is spelled W-O-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “won't vs wont” about 720 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, wont means “Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wont?

Letters4: W-O-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is wont?

Wont appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 wont?

  • UK /wʌnt/
  • UK /wəʊnt/
  • UK /wɒnt/

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

Words people confuse with wont

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

won't vs wont720 G
want vs wont260 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with wont?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as wont (/ʌnt/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: town, nowt.

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 wont

  • wonts present, singular, he/she/it
  • wonting participle, present
  • wonted participle, past

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

What does wont mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).

    He is wont to complain loudly about his job.

noun

  1. 1

    archaicOne's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.

    He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo make (someone) used to; to accustom.

  2. 2

    archaicTo be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

    What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]

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

Wont in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhabitude, coutume (habitual way of doing things), habitué (accustomed or apt), habituer (to make (someone) used to; to accustom), être habitué (to be accustomed)
GermanGewohnheit (habitual way of doing things), gewohnt (accustomed or apt)
Portuguesehábito (habitual way of doing things), acostumado, apto (accustomed or apt), soer, acostumar (to be accustomed)
Spanishcostumbre (habitual way of doing things), habituado, acostumbrado, avezado (accustomed or apt), acostumbrar, soler (to be accustomed)

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 wont come from?

From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian. Cognate with German gewohnt and Dutch gewend.

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

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