Monteil
The verdict
“Monteil” is uncommon French (frequency #54,736 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,736
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monteil · Monteil · French
Monteil · rank #54,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modulo
Nearest frequency peer: modulo (-2 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 « Monteil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mixed
mixed
45,269 corpus weight
- modulo
modulo
45,267 corpus weight
- Monteil
Monteil
45,265 corpus weight
- moraine
moraine
45,263 corpus weight
- Moreira
Moreira
45,262 corpus weight
- moria
moria
45,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Monteil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Monteil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Monteil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Monteil is uncommon French at frequency #54,736 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Monteil, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Monteil, spelled M-O-N-T-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Monteil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant au bureau du club, il se renouvelle en raison des arrêts de Kévin Richard, vice-président, et Christelle Monteil, trésorière.
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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