Monastir
The verdict
“Monastir” is uncommon French (frequency #56,116 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,116
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom turc de Bitola, ville de Macédoine du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monastir · Monastir · French
Monastir · rank #56,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modesto
Nearest frequency peer: modesto (-1 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 « Monastir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mithra
Mithra
43,888 corpus weight
- modale
modale
43,887 corpus weight
- modesto
modesto
43,886 corpus weight
- Monastir
Monastir
43,885 corpus weight
- monnoye
monnoye
43,884 corpus weight
- monothéisme
monothéisme
43,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Monastir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Monastir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Monastir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Monastir is uncommon French at frequency #56,116 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom turc de Bitola, ville de Macédoine du Nord.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Monastir in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Monastir, spelled M-O-N-A-S-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Nom turc de Bitola, ville de Macédoine du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Monastir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais interrogez le marchand du bazar,.. ou ce muletier valaque qui chante depuis deux heures son tris phonous,.. ou ce pope noir assis aux marches du khani et attendant depuis une semaine l’arrivée de son archevêque… : « Monastir est bulgare !.. Monastir est serbe !.. Monastir est valaque ! » Un Albanais, cawas du consul d’Autriche, conclut négligemment e…
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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