menotter
\mə.nɔ.te\
The verdict
“menotter” is uncommon French (frequency #73,351 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,351
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre les menottes à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menotter · menotter · French
menotter · rank #73,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,351
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mechanical
Nearest frequency peer: mechanical (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « menotter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mascate
Mascate
26,655 corpus weight
- mathurins
mathurins
26,654 corpus weight
- mechanical
mechanical
26,652 corpus weight
- menotter
menotter
26,650 corpus weight
- Mesmer
Mesmer
26,648 corpus weight
- miao
miao
26,646 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « menotter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menotter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mə.nɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « menotter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
menotter is uncommon French at frequency #73,351 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mə.nɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre les menottes à.".
menotter has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is menotter, spelled M-E-N-O-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre les menottes à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menotter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacques et Jeannot furent menottés avec une rapidité foudroyante ; pour ma part, je me voyais intimer l'ordre de lever les mains.
Changement de décor, une fille noire aux formes contenues et soulignées par une robe de cuir rouge rentre dans une allée d'immeuble. Se fait bloquer par un type cagoule qui la menotte prestement à la rampe d'escalier. Puis il l'empoigne par les cheveux et la force à le sucer.
Antonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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