menthe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,214
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
menthe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante odoriférante du genre Mentha de la famille des Lamiacées (Lamiaceae), ordre des Lamiales. Pronounced \mɑ̃t\. Often confused with monte and mythe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menthe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for menthe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,214 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for menthe, with forms such as "emnthe", "menhte", and "mennthe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "monte", "mythe", "mette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 menthe, spelled M-E-N-T-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante odoriférante du genre Mentha de la famille des Lamiacées (Lamiaceae), ordre des Lamiales.
- 2Nom donné à différente plantes ressemblant à la menthe (genre Mentha), suivi d’une épithète, mais qui sont d’un autre genre, par exemple la menthe des chats (Nepeta cataria) ou la menthe-coq (Tanacetum balsamita).
- 3Boisson à base de menthe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emnthe,menhte,mennthe,menteh,menthhe,mentthe,metnhe,mmenthe,mnethe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for menthe
Misspelling Variants of "menthe"
Frequency rank: #13,214 in French
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