Montbard
\mɔ̃.baʁ\
The verdict
“Montbard” is uncommon French (frequency #76,807 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,807
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la Côte-d’Or, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montbard · Montbard · French
Montbard · rank #76,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,807
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monobloc
Nearest frequency peer: monobloc (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Montbard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modifiait
modifiait
23,198 corpus weight
- moissonneus…
moissonneuses
23,197 corpus weight
- monobloc
monobloc
23,195 corpus weight
- Montbard
Montbard
23,194 corpus weight
- morues
morues
23,193 corpus weight
- moti
moti
23,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montbard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montbard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montbard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montbard is uncommon French at frequency #76,807 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Montbard, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Montbard, spelled M-O-N-T-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Commune de la Côte-d’Or, en France.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
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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