monocorde
\mɔ.nɔ.kɔʁd\
The verdict
“monocorde” is uncommon French (frequency #77,718 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,718
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de bois, de cuivre, etc., sur lequel il y a une seule corde tendue et divisée selon certaines proportions pour donner les différents intervalles des sons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monocorde · monocorde · French
monocorde · rank #77,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,718
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monop
Nearest frequency peer: monop (+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 « monocorde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Miossec
Miossec
22,288 corpus weight
- miou
miou
22,287 corpus weight
- Mizuki
Mizuki
22,286 corpus weight
- monocorde
monocorde
22,283 corpus weight
- monop
monop
22,282 corpus weight
- Morency
Morency
22,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monocorde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monocorde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.nɔ.kɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monocorde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monocorde is uncommon French at frequency #77,718 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.nɔ.kɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monocorde, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is monocorde, spelled M-O-N-O-C-O-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument de bois, de cuivre, etc., sur lequel il y a une seule corde tendue et divisée selon certaines proportions pour donner les différents intervalles des sons.
- 2Cithare vietnamienne à une seule corde, sans touche et munie d'un manche flexible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monocorde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diviser un monocorde.
Utilisant un monocorde - instrument composé d’une corde de métal ou de boyau tendu sur une règle entre deux chevalets fixes - il mesura la variété et la proportion des sons produits en faisant varier la longueur de la partie vibrante.
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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