montant
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,744
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
montant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui monte. Pronounced \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\. It ranks #1,744 in French word frequency. Often confused with mutant and montent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for montant is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,744 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for montant, with forms such as "mmontant", "mnotant", and "monatnt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mutant", "montent", "mourant", 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 montant, spelled M-O-N-T-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui monte.
- 2Qui va des notes graves aux notes élevées.
- 3Vertical.
- 4En poste, par opposition à ce qu’on relève et qu’on appelle descendant.
- 5Qui vient de Paris ou qui arrive en gare.
- 6Qui va vers l’amont du cours d’eau.
- 7Qualifie la phase de la Lune quand elle s’élève de jour en jour par rapport au plan de l’écliptique, autrement dit quand elle apparait par rapport à un repère fixe, tel un arbre, chaque jour plus haut dans le ciel.
- 8Se dit de la voie de transmission et des informations transmises, d’une station terrienne vers une station spatiale, d’une station de données vers un ordinateur central, d’un utilisateur vers un serveur, ou encore d’une station mobile vers une station de base.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmontant,mnotant,monatnt,monntant,montannt,montantt,montatn,montnat,monttant,motnant,omntant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for montant
Misspelling Variants of "montant"
Frequency rank: #1,744 in French
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Nearby French words
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