monodie
\mɔ.nɔ.di\
The verdict
“monodie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Structure musicale dont les différentes parties — instrumentales ou vocales — sont constamment séparées par un intervalle d’unisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monodie · monodie · French
monodie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monodie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.nɔ.di\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
monodie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.nɔ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
monodie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 monodie, spelled M-O-N-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Structure musicale dont les différentes parties — instrumentales ou vocales — sont constamment séparées par un intervalle d’unisson.
- 2Chant à une seule voix et sans accompagnement.
- 3Procédé d’écriture musicale combinant et opposant, d’une part, une partie principale réalisant la mélodie, et d’autre part, un accompagnement de cette première partie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plain-chant, le chant ambrosien et le chant byzantin utilisent la monodie.
Chose remarquable ! jusqu’à la fin du XVIᵉ siècle, l’individualité humaine n’a pas eu son expression dans la musique. La monodie grecque était chorale. La monodie liturgique était […] tout à fait impersonnelle d’expression.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.