montagne
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.taɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Relief topographique présentant des versants prononcés (par opposition à « haut plateau » situé en altitude mais ne présentant pas le caractère montagneux).
- 2Prairie d'altitude, alpage.
- 3Région en altitude où l’on séjourne pour son plaisir ou pour sa santé.
- 4Sous 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.
- 5Amas considérable.
- 6Grande difficulté.
- 7Grand nombre, grande quantité.
- 8Meuble 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.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #2,001 in French
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Nearby French words
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