monocoque
\mɔ.nɔ.kɔk\
The verdict
“monocoque” is uncommon French (frequency #58,101 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,101
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont la rigidité mécanique est assurée sans châssis séparé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monocoque · monocoque · French
monocoque · rank #58,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,101
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moniales
Nearest frequency peer: moniales (-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 « monocoque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- molybdène
molybdène
41,903 corpus weight
- mondialisme
mondialisme
41,902 corpus weight
- moniales
moniales
41,901 corpus weight
- monocoque
monocoque
41,900 corpus weight
- Monsters
Monsters
41,899 corpus weight
- Montherlant
Montherlant
41,898 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monocoque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monocoque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.nɔ.kɔk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monocoque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monocoque is uncommon French at frequency #58,101 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.nɔ.kɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
monocoque has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is monocoque, spelled M-O-N-O-C-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Dont la rigidité mécanique est assurée sans châssis séparé.
- 2Qualifie un avion à fuselage.
- 3Qualifie une bactérie ronde qui se présente isolée.
- 4Composé d’une seule coque.
- 5Composé d’une seule coque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monocoque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voiture monocoque.
Froment monocoque.
Antonyms
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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