montant
\mɔ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“montant” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,744 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,744
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui monte.
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 | montant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “montant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for montant is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for montant, with forms such as "mmontant", "mnotant", and "monatnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is montant, spelled M-O-N-T-A-N-T.
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.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmontant,mnotant,monatnt,monntant,montannt,montantt,montatn,montnat,monttant,motnant,omntant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of montant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “montant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-N-T-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “mutant” - see the side-by-side comparison. montant vs mutant
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.