monceau
\mɔ̃.so\
The verdict
“monceau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,046. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,046
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tas, amas fait en forme de petit mont.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monceau · monceau · French
monceau · rank #29,046 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,046
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mollets
Nearest frequency peer: mollets (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « monceau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- minutieuse
minutieuse
70,958 corpus weight
- moe
moe
70,957 corpus weight
- mollets
mollets
70,956 corpus weight
- monceau
monceau
70,955 corpus weight
- monteur
monteur
70,954 corpus weight
- morton
morton
70,953 corpus weight
What this shows « monceau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « monceau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around monceau (IPA \mɔ̃.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,046 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for monceau, with forms such as "mmonceau", "mnoceau", and "mocneau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "moreau", "morceau", "morceaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is monceau, spelled M-O-N-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Tas, amas fait en forme de petit mont.
- 2Grosse quantité.
- 3Greffe en monceau : greffe où l’on prélève la tête d’un arbre pour l’introduire dans une fente pratiqué dans un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monceau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gouverneur de la forteresse avait fait ses préparatifs de défense. Des monceaux de pavés garnissaient le haut des tours, entourant les canons, pour lesquels on avait élargi les meurtrières.
Figure mélancolique, il méditait profondément devant le monceau de ferraille et de cendres qui représentait sa défunte motocyclette.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonceau
- mnoceau
- mocneau
- moncaeu
- moncceau
- monceua
- monecau
- monnceau
- omnceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monceau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).