montée de lait
\mɔ̃.te də le\
The verdict
“montée de lait” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Processus de génération du lait chez la femelle mammifère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montée de lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.te də le\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “montée de lait” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for montée de lait is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃.te də le\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for montée de lait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 montée de lait, spelled M-O-N-T-É-E- -D-E- -L-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Processus de génération du lait chez la femelle mammifère.
- 2Moment où la femme allaitante sent le lait monter en son sein, parfois accompagné d’une certaine douleur.
- 3Prise de position publique exprimant une irritation violente et irrépressible, spontanée ou présentée comme telle, à propos d’une situation.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-O-N-T-É-E- -D-E- -L-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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