Montagu
\mɔ̃.ta.ɡy\
The verdict
“Montagu” is uncommon French (frequency #70,036 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,036
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nom de famille français ou anglais
Corpus desk
Index FR-montagu · Montagu · French
Montagu · rank #70,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,036
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH molosse
Nearest frequency peer: molosse (-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 « Montagu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moindrement
moindrement
29,969 corpus weight
- molosse
molosse
29,966 corpus weight
- Montagu
Montagu
29,965 corpus weight
- Montbrun
Montbrun
29,964 corpus weight
- mordait
mordait
29,962 corpus weight
- morpion
morpion
29,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montagu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montagu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ta.ɡy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montagu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montagu is uncommon French at frequency #70,036 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ta.ɡy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nom de famille français ou anglais".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Montagu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Montagu, spelled M-O-N-T-A-G-U.
Definition
- 1nom de famille français ou anglais
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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