montant

/\mɔ̃.tɑ̃\/ adj

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.

Key facts for montant
PropertyValue
Headwordmontant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\mɔ̃.tɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,744
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of montant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Qui monte.
  2. 2
    Qui va des notes graves aux notes élevées.
  3. 3
    Vertical.
  4. 4
    En poste, par opposition à ce qu’on relève et qu’on appelle descendant.
  5. 5
    Qui vient de Paris ou qui arrive en gare.
  6. 6
    Qui va vers l’amont du cours d’eau.
  7. 7
    Qualifie 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.
  8. 8
    Se 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

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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"

mmontant8mnotant7monatnt7monntant8montannt8montantt8montatn7montnat7
Misspelling Variants of "montant"

Frequency rank: #1,744 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "montant"?
"montant" is spelled M-O-N-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\.
What does "montant" mean?
As an adj, "montant" means: Qui monte.
What words are commonly confused with "montant"?
"montant" is commonly confused with "mutant", "montent", "mourant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "montant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "montant" is \mɔ̃.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "montant" come from?
"montant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.