monstrueux
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,818
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
monstrueux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a une conformation contre nature, anormale. Pronounced \mɔ̃s.tʁy.ø\. Often confused with Montreux and monstrueuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monstrueux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔ̃s.tʁy.ø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monstrueux is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃s.tʁy.ø\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,818 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for monstrueux, with forms such as "mmonstrueux", "mnostrueux", and "monnstrueux". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Montreux", "monstrueuse", 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 monstrueux, spelled M-O-N-S-T-R-U-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a une conformation contre nature, anormale.
- 2Caratéristique du monstre, excessivement laid.
- 3Qui est de la nature du monstre en tant que créature fabuleuse, mythique, légendaire.
- 4Qui est contraire aux lois de la nature, à la bienséance, à la morale.
- 5Qui est extrêmement mal, cruel, pervers.
- 6Qui va à l’encontre de la raison.
- 7Qui est prodigieux, excessif dans son genre, ses caractéristiques, d’une extrême intensité.
- 8Se dit d'un animal dont une partie du corps provient d'un autre animal permettant de créer des chimères qui n’ont pas de nom donné par la tradition contrairement aux sirènes, griffons, sphynx, centaures, minotaures, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmonstrueux,mnostrueux,monnstrueux,monsrtueux,monsstrueux,monstreuux,monstrrueux,monstrueuxx,monstruexu,monstruuex,monsttrueux,monstureux,montsrueux,mosntrueux,omnstrueux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for monstrueux
Misspelling Variants of "monstrueux"
Frequency rank: #12,818 in French
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