montagne

/\mɔ̃.taɲ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,001

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

montagne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Relief topographique présentant des versants prononcés (par opposition à « haut plateau » situé en altitude mais ne présentant pas le caractère montagneux). Pronounced \mɔ̃.taɲ\. It ranks #2,001 in French word frequency. Often confused with montant and Montana.

Key facts for montagne
PropertyValue
Headwordmontagne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ̃.taɲ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,001
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of montagne in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for montagne is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃.taɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,001 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for montagne, with forms such as "mmontagne", "mnotagne", and "monatgne". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "montant", "Montana", "montante", 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 montagne, spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relief topographique présentant des versants prononcés (par opposition à « haut plateau » situé en altitude mais ne présentant pas le caractère montagneux).
  2. 2
    Prairie d'altitude, alpage.
  3. 3
    Région en altitude où l’on séjourne pour son plaisir ou pour sa santé.
  4. 4
    Sous la Convention, les bancs les plus élevés de l’assemblée, le parti démocrate qui y siégeait. Par allusion, se dit quelquefois du parti qui, dans une assemblée parlementaire, représente les opinions les plus avancées.
  5. 5
    Amas considérable.
  6. 6
    Grande difficulté.
  7. 7
    Grand nombre, grande quantité.
  8. 8
    Meuble représentant le relief du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement mouvante de la pointe ou d’une partition. On doit blasonner le nombre de pics quand il y en a plusieurs. À rapprocher de colline et mont.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmontagne,mnotagne,monatgne,monntagne,montagen,montaggne,montagnne,montange,montgane,monttagne,motnagne,omntagne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for montagne

Misspelling Variants of "montagne"

mmontagne9mnotagne8monatgne8monntagne9montagen8montaggne9montagnne9montange8
Misspelling Variants of "montagne"

Frequency rank: #2,001 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "montagne"?
"montagne" is spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.taɲ\.
What does "montagne" mean?
As a noun, "montagne" means: Relief topographique présentant des versants prononcés (par opposition à « haut plateau » situé en altitude mais ne présentant pas le caractère montagneux).
What words are commonly confused with "montagne"?
"montagne" is commonly confused with "montant", "Montana", "montante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "montagne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "montagne" is \mɔ̃.taɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "montagne" come from?
"montagne" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.