Moncontour
\mɔ̃.kɔ̃.tuʁ\
The verdict
“Moncontour” is uncommon French (frequency #97,175 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,175
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moncontour · Moncontour · French
Moncontour · rank #97,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,175
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moellon
Nearest frequency peer: moellon (-2 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 « Moncontour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mocassin
mocassin
2,830 corpus weight
- modificateur
modificateur
2,829 corpus weight
- moellon
moellon
2,828 corpus weight
- Moncontour
Moncontour
2,826 corpus weight
- Moraves
Moraves
2,824 corpus weight
- morbier
morbier
2,823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moncontour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moncontour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.kɔ̃.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moncontour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moncontour is uncommon French at frequency #97,175 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃.kɔ̃.tuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Moncontour, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Moncontour, spelled M-O-N-C-O-N-T-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Vienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Moncontour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant les années 1793 et 1794, le pays s’étendant depuis Broons, Dinan, Lamballe, Saint-Brieuc, Quintin, Loudéac, Corlay et Guingamp, jusqu’aux confins du Morbihan et du Finistère, fut entièrement au pouvoir des royalistes. Moncontour en était le centre.
L’Américain Lucas Bourgoyne (WB-Fybolia), vainqueur à Moncontour début juin devant Schmidt au sprint, règle les poursuivants avec trois longueurs d’avance sur le local Nicolas Silliau (UCB), qui offre un beau doublé aux Briochins.
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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