montagnes russes

/\mɔ̃.taɲ ʁys\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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montagnes russes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attraction de fête foraine ou de parc d'attractions consistant à lancer un train de petites voitures sur une série de montées et de descentes brutales. Pronounced \mɔ̃.taɲ ʁys\.

Key facts for montagnes russes
PropertyValue
Headwordmontagnes russes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ̃.taɲ ʁys\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

montagnes russes is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for montagnes russes is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃.taɲ ʁys\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for montagnes russes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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.

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 montagnes russes, spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E-S- -R-U-S-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attraction de fête foraine ou de parc d'attractions consistant à lancer un train de petites voitures sur une série de montées et de descentes brutales.
  2. 2
    Ce qui varie rapidement entre deux extrêmes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "montagnes russes"?
"montagnes russes" is spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-N-E-S- -R-U-S-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.taɲ ʁys\.
What does "montagnes russes" mean?
As a noun, "montagnes russes" means: Attraction de fête foraine ou de parc d'attractions consistant à lancer un train de petites voitures sur une série de montées et de descentes brutales.
How do you pronounce "montagnes russes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "montagnes russes" is \mɔ̃.taɲ ʁys\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "montagnes russes" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.