montagnarde
\mɔ̃.ta.ɲaʁd\
The verdict
“montagnarde” is uncommon French (frequency #56,119 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,119
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui habite la montagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montagnarde · montagnarde · French
montagnarde · rank #56,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,119
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monothéisme
Nearest frequency peer: monothéisme (-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 « montagnarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Monastir
Monastir
43,885 corpus weight
- monnoye
monnoye
43,884 corpus weight
- monothéisme
monothéisme
43,883 corpus weight
- montagnarde
montagnarde
43,882 corpus weight
- Mornay
Mornay
43,880 corpus weight
- Morten
Morten
43,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « montagnarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montagnarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ta.ɲaʁd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « montagnarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
montagnarde is uncommon French at frequency #56,119 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ta.ɲaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui habite la montagne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for montagnarde, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 montagnarde, spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui habite la montagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how montagnarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mary chantait et dansait quelques minutes au milieu des joueurs de balalaïka, vêtue d'un costume de « princesse ukrainienne » qui évoquait plutôt les montagnardes du Tyrol.
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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