Montebourg
The verdict
“Montebourg” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,193
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montebourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Montebourg” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Montebourg, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,193 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Montebourg, with forms such as "mmontebourg", "mnotebourg", and "monetbourg". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Montebourg, spelled M-O-N-T-E-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmontebourg
- mnotebourg
- monetbourg
- monntebourg
- montbeourg
- montebbourg
- monteborug
- montebougr
- montebourgg
- montebourrg
- montebuorg
- monteoburg
- monttebourg
- motnebourg
- omntebourg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Montebourg - 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 “Montebourg”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-N-T-E-B-O-U-R-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.