monochromes
\mɔ.no.kʁom\
The verdict
“monochromes” is uncommon French (frequency #66,918 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,918
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de monochrome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monochromes · monochromes · French
monochromes · rank #66,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,918
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moms
Nearest frequency peer: moms (-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 « monochromes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moder
moder
33,086 corpus weight
- Molsheim
Molsheim
33,085 corpus weight
- moms
moms
33,084 corpus weight
- monochromes
monochromes
33,083 corpus weight
- monothéiste
monothéiste
33,082 corpus weight
- Montalivet
Montalivet
33,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monochromes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monochromes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.no.kʁom\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monochromes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monochromes is uncommon French at frequency #66,918 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.no.kʁom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de monochrome.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monochromes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is monochromes, spelled M-O-N-O-C-H-R-O-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de monochrome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how monochromes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je voudrais rappeler encore le nom d’autres artistes italiens hantés également par la volonté d’« objectualiser » la peinture: Enrico Ciuti est de ceux-là; après une intense et féconde activité de dessinateur, il a créé une série de reliefs monochromes réalisés par la superposition de surfaces discontinues, que leur efficacité perspective semble destiner…
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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