monocle
\mɔ.nɔkl\
The verdict
“monocle” is uncommon French (frequency #63,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit verre d’optique qui se place dans l’arcade sourcilière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monocle · monocle · French
monocle · rank #63,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,935
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monnayeurs
Nearest frequency peer: monnayeurs (-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 « monocle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mondanités
mondanités
36,069 corpus weight
- monnayeurs
monnayeurs
36,067 corpus weight
- monocle
monocle
36,066 corpus weight
- monstrueuse…
monstrueusement
36,065 corpus weight
- Montdidier
Montdidier
36,064 corpus weight
- Monteverdi
Monteverdi
36,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monocle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monocle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.nɔkl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monocle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monocle is uncommon French at frequency #63,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.nɔkl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for monocle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is monocle, spelled M-O-N-O-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit verre d’optique qui se place dans l’arcade sourcilière.
- 2Anus.
- 3N’importe quelle espèce de crustacés du genre Monoculus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monocle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait une face plate et régulière de magistrat, à gros favoris blonds, qu’il tâchait de rendre aiguë, en se servant d’un monocle, derrière lequel son œil pétillait.
Comme la vue de Swann était un peu basse, il dut se résigner à se servir de lunettes pour travailler chez lui, et à adopter, pour aller dans le monde, le monocle qui le défigurait moins.
Synonyms
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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