montagnais
\mɔ̃.ta.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“montagnais” is uncommon French (frequency #81,352 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,352
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée par les Innus, peuple autochtone de l’Est du Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montagnais · montagnais · French
montagnais · rank #81,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,352
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montagnac
Nearest frequency peer: Montagnac (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « montagnais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- molinaro
molinaro
18,653 corpus weight
- molosses
molosses
18,652 corpus weight
- moman
moman
18,651 corpus weight
- Montagnac
Montagnac
18,650 corpus weight
- montagnais
montagnais
18,649 corpus weight
- Montbazon
Montbazon
18,648 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « montagnais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montagnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ta.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « montagnais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
montagnais is uncommon French at frequency #81,352 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ta.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée par les Innus, peuple autochtone de l’Est du Canada.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for montagnais in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is montagnais, spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée par les Innus, peuple autochtone de l’Est du Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how montagnais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nom de l’île Manowin vient du montagnais manouane, qui signifie « là où on ramasse les oeufs ».
Amishk signifie « castor » en montagnais.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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