Monaghan
The verdict
“Monaghan” is uncommon French (frequency #88,903 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,903
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de la province de l’Ulster, en Irlande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monaghan · Monaghan · French
Monaghan · rank #88,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,903
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miz
Nearest frequency peer: miz (-4 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 « Monaghan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- millepertuis
millepertuis
11,106 corpus weight
- mink
mink
11,103 corpus weight
- miz
miz
11,102 corpus weight
- Monaghan
Monaghan
11,098 corpus weight
- montreras
montreras
11,094 corpus weight
- moyeux
moyeux
11,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Monaghan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Monaghan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Monaghan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Monaghan is uncommon French at frequency #88,903 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de la province de l’Ulster, en Irlande.".
Monaghan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Monaghan, spelled M-O-N-A-G-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ville de la province de l’Ulster, en Irlande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Monaghan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tir-Owen soumit tout ce pays [l’Ulster] aux Anglais, qui le divisent actuellement en dix comtés : cinq de ces comtés, savoir Louth, Down, Antrim, Londonderry & Dunnagal confinent à la mer ; les cinq autres, savoir Tyrone, Armagh, Fermanagh, Monaghan & Cavan sont dans les terres. Londonderry est regardée pour être la capitale.
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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