Montana
\mɔ̃.ta.na\
The verdict
“Montana” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,685
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MT), bordé par le Canada (Colombie-Britannique, Alberta et Saskatchewan) au nord, le Dakota du Nord à l’est, le Dakota du Sud au sud-es...
Corpus desk
Index FR-montana · Montana · French
Montana · rank #15,685 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,685
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modifiées
Nearest frequency peer: modifiées (-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 « Montana »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mile
mile
84,319 corpus weight
- Minnesota
Minnesota
84,318 corpus weight
- modifiées
modifiées
84,317 corpus weight
- Montana
Montana
84,316 corpus weight
- motards
motards
84,315 corpus weight
- multimédia
multimédia
84,314 corpus weight
What this shows « Montana » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ta.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Montana »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Montana (IPA \mɔ̃.ta.na\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,685 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MT), bordé par le Canada (Colombie-Britannique, Alberta et Saskatchewan) au nord, le Dakota du Nord à l’est, le Dakota du Sud au sud-es...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Montana, with forms such as "mmontana", "mnotana", and "monatna". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "montra", "montant", "montent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Montana, spelled M-O-N-T-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MT), bordé par le Canada (Colombie-Britannique, Alberta et Saskatchewan) au nord, le Dakota du Nord à l’est, le Dakota du Sud au sud-est, le Wyoming au sud, et l’Idaho au sud-ouest, et dont la capitale est Helena.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Montana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est le Montana, État du nord-ouest surtout connu pour ses forêts verdoyantes, ses montagnes et ses rivières, qui a ouvert le bal.
Ce squelette d’un Deinonychus antirrhopus', constitué de 126 os et mesurant plus de 3 m de long, a été découvert dans le Montana, et a toujours appartenu à des collectionneurs privés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmontana
- mnotana
- monatna
- monntana
- montaan
- montanna
- montnaa
- monttana
- motnana
- omntana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Montana - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).