Montagne
"montagne" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Montagne” is uncommon English (frequency #68,458 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,458
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-montagne · Montagne · English
Montagne · rank #68,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,458
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH morpheme
Nearest frequency peer: morpheme (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Montagne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mizoram
Mizoram
31,552 corpus weight
- moneymaker
moneymaker
31,545 corpus weight
- Montagne
Montagne
31,543 corpus weight
- morpheme
morpheme
31,542 corpus weight
- Moskva
Moskva
31,540 corpus weight
- muffle
muffle
31,535 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Montagne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montagne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Montagne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Montagne is uncommon English at frequency #68,458 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Montagne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Montagne or Montagné. The correct English form is Montagne, spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Montagne or Montagné.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).