monsieur
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#805
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
monsieur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appellation permettant de s’adresser de façon polie à un homme (un client, un professeur, un passant, etc.). Pronounced \mə.sjø\. It ranks #805 in French word frequency. Often confused with Monster and monteur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monsieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.sjø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monsieur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.sjø\. Corpus data places it at rank #805 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for monsieur, with forms such as "mmonsieur", "mnosieur", and "moniseur". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Monster", "monteur", "Monnier", 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 monsieur, spelled M-O-N-S-I-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appellation permettant de s’adresser de façon polie à un homme (un client, un professeur, un passant, etc.).
- 2Homme dont on ne connaît pas le nom (par opposition à dame, madame).
- 3Terme courtois pour un homme (par opposition à dame et demoiselle).
- 4Le chef, le maître de maison, dans le langage des domestiques.
- 5Homme qui a les dehors d’un bourgeois, dont le langage et les manières annoncent quelque éducation.
- 6Personnage d’un rang important (→ voir grand monsieur).
- 7Nom donné, par antiphrase, au cochon.
- 8Dans le Bas-Maine, nom donné autrefois au vin.
- 9Un homme quelconque.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmonsieur,mnosieur,moniseur,monnsieur,monseiur,monsieru,monsieurr,monsiuer,monssieur,mosnieur,omnsieur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for monsieur
Misspelling Variants of "monsieur"
Frequency rank: #805 in French
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