monnayage
\mo.nɛ.jaʒ\
The verdict
“monnayage” is uncommon French (frequency #72,554 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,554
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fabrication de la monnaie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monnayage · monnayage · French
monnayage · rank #72,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,554
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monopolisent
Nearest frequency peer: monopolisent (+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 « monnayage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mohamad
Mohamad
27,450 corpus weight
- monnayage
monnayage
27,447 corpus weight
- monopolisent
monopolisent
27,446 corpus weight
- monospaces
monospaces
27,445 corpus weight
- morilles
morilles
27,444 corpus weight
- Moroni
Moroni
27,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monnayage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monnayage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.nɛ.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monnayage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monnayage is uncommon French at frequency #72,554 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.nɛ.jaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for monnayage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 monnayage, spelled M-O-N-N-A-Y-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Fabrication de la monnaie.
- 2Remplacement d'une durée par plusieurs plus brèves et de durée globale équivalente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monnayage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le monnayage attribué aux Aulerques Diablintes, tout d’abord, appartient stylistiquement à un ensemble armoricain, notamment par la présence au revers d’un cheval androcéphale.
En 1922, l’Égypte a été proclamée royaume et Ahmed Fouad Ier proclamé roi; les monnaies ont été alors frappées avec son nom dans les monnayages britanniques.
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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