Montparnasse
"montparnasse" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Montparnasse” is uncommon English (frequency #70,920 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,920
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A neighbourhood of Paris, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-montparnasse · Montparnasse · English
Montparnasse · rank #70,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,920
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monstrously
Nearest frequency peer: monstrously (-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 “Montparnasse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moisten
moisten
29,084 corpus weight
- Moniz
Moniz
29,083 corpus weight
- monstrously
monstrously
29,082 corpus weight
- Montparnasse
Montparnasse
29,081 corpus weight
- mope
mope
29,080 corpus weight
- mordant
mordant
29,079 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Montparnasse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montparnasse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Montparnasse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Montparnasse is uncommon English at frequency #70,920 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A neighbourhood of Paris, France.".
Montparnasse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Montparnasse. The correct English form is Montparnasse, spelled M-O-N-T-P-A-R-N-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1A neighbourhood of Paris, France.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Montparnasse.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).