monovalent
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
monovalent is anFrenchadj. It means: À valeur unique ; à fonction, effet, ou forme unique. Pronounced \mɔ.no.va.lɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monovalent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔ.no.va.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monovalent is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.no.va.lɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for monovalent in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is monovalent, spelled M-O-N-O-V-A-L-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1À valeur unique ; à fonction, effet, ou forme unique.
- 2Se dit d’un élément chimique ou d’un radical ayant soit un électron supplémentaire (comme l’ion chlorure : Cl⁻), soit un électron en moins (comme l’ion sodium : Na⁺).
- 3Désigne un verbe qui demande un seul actant, exprimé ou sous-entendu.
- 4Qui comprend un seul sérotype de l’agent infectieux, en parlant d’un vaccin.
- 5Se dit de chromosomes présents en une seule copie. Désigne l’arrangement des homologues chromosomaux lors de leur appariement méiotique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "monovalent"?
What does "monovalent" mean?
How do you pronounce "monovalent"?
What language does "monovalent" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: