montait

\mɔ̃.tɛ\

/\mɔ̃.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“montait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,679
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de monter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-montait · montait · French

montait · rank #16,679 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,679
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH montages

Nearest frequency peer: montages (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « montait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « montait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

montait vs monti
71% similar
montait vs montant
86% similar
montait vs montent
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for montait
PropertyValue
Headwordmontait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɔ̃.tɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,679
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « montait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.montaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « montages » (#16,678), « médiocrité » (#16,680), « modo » (#16,677). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « montait » est au #16,679. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around montait (IPA \mɔ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,679 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de monter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for montait, with forms such as "mmontait", "mnotait", and "monatit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "monti", "montant", "montent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 montait, spelled M-O-N-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de monter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how montait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mes criailleries ? répliqua Marianne dont la voix montait. Mes criailleries ? Je n’ai que trop de raisons de me plaindre de toi, et d’ailleurs, c’est pour ton bien…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmontait
  • mnotait
  • monatit
  • monntait
  • montaitt
  • montati
  • montiat
  • monttait
  • motnait
  • omntait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of montait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mmontait1mnotait2monatit2monntait1montaitt1montati2montiat2monttait1
Edit distance from "montait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "montait"?
"montait" is spelled M-O-N-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.tɛ\.
What does "montait" mean?
As a verb, "montait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de monter.
What words are commonly confused with "montait"?
"montait" is commonly confused with "monti", "montant", "montent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "montait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "montait" is \mɔ̃.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "montait" come from?
"montait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "montait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list