Mons
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,199
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Mons is aFrenchname. It means: Commune et ville wallonne de Belgique, chef-lieu de la province du Hainaut. Pronounced \mɔ̃s\. It ranks #9,199 in French word frequency. Often confused with ms and mot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \mɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Mons is 4 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,199 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mons, with forms such as "mmons", "mnos", and "monns". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ms", "mot", "mou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Mons, spelled M-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville wallonne de Belgique, chef-lieu de la province du Hainaut.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département du Gard.
- 5Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne.
- 6Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault. Appelé informellement "Mons-le-Trivalie"
- 7Commune française, située dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.
- 8Commune française, située dans le département du Var.
- 9Hameau situé dans la commune française de Laiz, dans le département de l’Ain.
- 10Hameau situé dans la commune française de Replonges, dans le département de l’Ain.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmons,mnos,monns,monss,mosn,omns
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Mons
Misspelling Variants of "Mons"
Frequency rank: #9,199 in French
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