mentonnière
\mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“mentonnière” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Partie inférieure de la visière des casques qui protégeait la mâchoire inférieure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentonnière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mentonnière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mentonnière is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mentonnière 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 mentonnière, spelled M-E-N-T-O-N-N-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie inférieure de la visière des casques qui protégeait la mâchoire inférieure.
- 2Bande de toile ou d’étoffe qui tenait autrefois aux masques et dont on se couvrait le menton.
- 3Partie d'un casque qui protège le menton ou la mâchoire, qui est soit serré sur le menton avec un sangle pour maintenir le casque en position, soit tenu rigidement devant le visage.
- 4Bande de toile dont on enveloppe le menton dans les cas de blessure ou de fluxion.
- 5Une telle bande de toile que l'on pose sur les défunts, afin qu'après la rigidité cadavérique, la bouche reste close.
- 6Tasseau triangulaire qui relève en avant la casse des typographes.
- 7Plateau saillant du fourneau de l’émailleur, etc..
- 8Élément de protection et de support pour caler entre le menton et l’épaule un instrument à cordes.
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 M-E-N-T-O-N-N-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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