monitrice
\mɔ.ni.tʁis\
The verdict
“monitrice” is uncommon French (frequency #64,621 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,621
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celle qui est chargée de répéter, dans certains corps de troupes, dans certaines organisations sociales, etc., les leçons des officiers, des maîtres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monitrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ni.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “monitrice” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
monitrice is uncommon French at frequency #64,621 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.ni.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monitrice, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 monitrice, spelled M-O-N-I-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est chargée de répéter, dans certains corps de troupes, dans certaines organisations sociales, etc., les leçons des officiers, des maîtres.
- 2Étudiante chargée d’enseigner sous forme de travaux dirigés, de cours pratiques sous l’autorité d’un ou d’une enseignante.
- 3Celle qui est chargée d’enseigner la pratique de certains sports.
- 4Celle qui est chargée d’encadrer des enfants lors de pratiques extra-scolaires. Animatrice de centre de vacances, familièrement mono(s).
- 5Celle qui enseigne une technique de loisir, une activité, la conduite dans une auto-école, etc.
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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Using “monitrice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-N-I-T-R-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.