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monter/montez/montée/montées/montés

"monter" (#1,668 written frequency) beats "montez" (#23,943) in this 5-word /\mɔ̃.te\/ cluster. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.

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Frequency splits the cluster

These 5 spellings keep the same /\mɔ̃.te\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "monter" leads at #1,668, with "montez" trailing at #23,943.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Single-letter fork: "monter" keeps r, "montez" writes z at letter 6.
  • Shared stem "mont" then splits - "monter" (6 letters) vs "montée" (6).
  • Shared stem "mont" then splits - "monter" (6 letters) vs "montées" (7).
  • Shared stem "mont" then splits - "monter" (6 letters) vs "montés" (6).
  • Shared stem "mont" then splits - "montez" (6 letters) vs "montée" (6).
  • Shared stem "mont" then splits - "montez" (6 letters) vs "montées" (7).
  • Shared stem "mont" then splits - "montez" (6 letters) vs "montés" (6).
  • Shared stem "montée" then splits - "montée" (6 letters) vs "montées" (7).
  • Single-letter fork: "montée" keeps e, "montés" writes s at letter 6.
  • Shared stem "monté" then splits - "montées" (7 letters) vs "montés" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across monter, montez, montée, montées, montés: mnot. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • monter

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory emnort · private er

  • montez

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory emnotz · private ez

  • montée

    6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV

    Inventory emnoté · private eé

  • montées

    7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC

    Inventory emnosté · private esé

  • montés

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory mnosté · private sé

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "monter" when you mean: Se déplacer vers le haut, se transporter dans un lieu plus élevé, s’élever, gravir, grimper.
  • Write "montez" when you mean: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de monter.
  • Write "montée" when you mean: Action de monter.
  • Write "montées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de monté.
  • Write "montés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de monté.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • monter ← mmonter · mnoter · monetr · monnter · montter · motner
  • montez ← mmontez · mnotez · monetz · monntez · montezz · monttez

Each spelling

monter

verb · /\mɔ̃.te\/ · #1,668 frequency

Se déplacer vers le haut, se transporter dans un lieu plus élevé, s’élever, gravir, grimper.

montez

verb · /\mɔ̃.te\/ · #23,943 frequency

Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de monter.

montée

/\mɔ̃.te\/

Action de monter.

montées

/\mɔ̃.te\/

Féminin pluriel de monté.

montés

/\mɔ̃.te\/

Masculin pluriel de monté.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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