monstre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,877
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
monstre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Créature fabuleuse et terrifiante généralement combattue par un héros ou une héroïne. Pronounced \mɔ̃stʁ\. It ranks #4,877 in French word frequency. Often confused with monte and montre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monstre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃stʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monstre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃stʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,877 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 23 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for monstre, with forms such as "mmonstre", "mnostre", and "monnstre". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "monte", "montre", "montée", 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 monstre, spelled M-O-N-S-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Créature fabuleuse et terrifiante généralement combattue par un héros ou une héroïne.
- 2Ce qui est extrêmement laid.
- 3Objet ou situation inhabituelle, qui sort de l’ordinaire.
- 4Figuration dramatique liée à cette chose.
- 5Qui a une singularité remarquable. → voir monstre de foire
- 6Individu difforme.
- 7Personne d’aspect effrayant.
- 8Personne charmante.
- 9Personne cruelle et dénaturée.
- 10Précise la nature du défaut ou du vice.
- 11Personnalité remarquable par son talent. → voir monstre sacré
- 12Précise le domaine dans lequel s’exerce le talent.
- 13Personne dont la non-conformité d'esprit ou de comportement face au groupe humain inspire la crainte ou l'horreur au sein de la population générale.
- 14Être légendaire affublé d’un pouvoir psychologique.
- 15Animal de grande taille. → voir monstre marin et monstre du Loch Ness
- 16Objet de proportions hors norme.
- 17Machine puissante, généralement bruyante.
- 18Un être ou une chose énorme, extraordinaire.
- 19Création défiant l’imagination.
- 20Artefact innovant.
- 21Le modèle type d’une machine, d’un dispositif.
- 22Un premier projet, une ébauche non définitive.
- 23Anomalie contre nature. Singularité qui subvertit l’ordre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmonstre,mnostre,monnstre,monsrte,monsstre,monstrre,monsttre,montsre,mosntre,omnstre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for monstre
Misspelling Variants of "monstre"
Frequency rank: #4,877 in French
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Nearby French words
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