mon
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#66
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mon is aFrenchdet. It means: Marque la possession ou l’appartenance. Le possesseur est le locuteur, ce qu’il possède est au masculin singulier. Pronounced \mɔ̃\. It ranks #66 in French word frequency. Often confused with MR and my.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Det |
| IPA | \mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mon is 3 letters long, classified as adet, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #66 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mon in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", 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 mon, spelled M-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque la possession ou l’appartenance. Le possesseur est le locuteur, ce qu’il possède est au masculin singulier.
- 2Pour exprimer des rapports d’habitude, de connaissance, de proximité, etc.
- 3Avec, en plus, une note d’affection.
- 4Avec une marque de respect ou de reconnaissance.
- 5Avec un caractère identificatoire.
- 6Avec une marque de subordination.
- 7Est une forme d’allégeance ou de soumission (obligatoire dans sa forme vocative).
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Frequency rank: #66 in French
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