monnaie de singe
\mɔ.nɛ də sɛ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“monnaie de singe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Monnaie dépourvue de valeur utilisée pour escroquer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monnaie de singe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.nɛ də sɛ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “monnaie de singe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monnaie de singe is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.nɛ də sɛ̃ʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Monnaie dépourvue de valeur utilisée pour escroquer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for monnaie de singe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is monnaie de singe, spelled M-O-N-N-A-I-E- -D-E- -S-I-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monnaie dépourvue de valeur utilisée pour escroquer.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is M-O-N-N-A-I-E- -D-E- -S-I-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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