Canadien de Montréal
\ka.na.djɛ̃ də mɔ̃.ʁe.al\
The verdict
“Canadien de Montréal” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Équipe montréalaise de la Ligne nationale de hockey (LNH), fondée en 1909.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Canadien de Montréal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.na.djɛ̃ də mɔ̃.ʁe.al\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Canadien de Montréal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Canadien de Montréal is 20 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.na.djɛ̃ də mɔ̃.ʁe.al\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Équipe montréalaise de la Ligne nationale de hockey (LNH), fondée en 1909.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Canadien de Montréal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Canadien de Montréal, spelled C-A-N-A-D-I-E-N- -D-E- -M-O-N-T-R-É-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Équipe montréalaise de la Ligne nationale de hockey (LNH), fondée en 1909.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-D-I-E-N- -D-E- -M-O-N-T-R-É-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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