montreal
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "montreal", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "montreal" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "montreal" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Montreal is aEnglishname. It means: A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers Pronounced /ˌmɒntɹiˈɔːl/. It ranks #6,381 in English word frequency. Often confused with Montreux and mongrel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montreal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | /ˌmɒntɹiˈɔːl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Montreal is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌmɒntɹiˈɔːl/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,381 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Montreal, with forms such as "mmontreal", "mnotreal", and "monntreal". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Montreux", "mongrel", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Montréal; from Mont Royal (“Mount Royal”) (mont + royal), after the nearby hill by Jacques Cartier. It is uncertain how Royal became -real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mon… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Montreal, spelled M-O-N-T-R-E-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 2A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 3A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 4A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 5A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 6A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 7A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 8A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 9A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 10A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
- 11A river in Algoma and Sudbury districts, Ontario, Canada.
- 12A river in Timiskaming district, Ontario, Canada.
- 13A river in No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 14An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, United States.
- 15A small city in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
- 16A river on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, United States.
- 17A river in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.
Etymology
From French Montréal; from Mont Royal (“Mount Royal”) (mont + royal), after the nearby hill by Jacques Cartier. It is uncertain how Royal became -real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mont Royal when he named it. It may have perhaps been from the Italian G.B. Rasmusio's 1556 map translating the name to Italian Monte Real.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmontreal,mnotreal,monntreal,monrteal,monteral,montrael,montreall,montrela,montrreal,monttreal,motnreal,omntreal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Montreal
Misspelling Variants of "Montreal"
Frequency rank: #6,381 in English
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