Montel
The verdict
“Montel” is uncommon French (frequency #50,368 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,368
- 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-montel · Montel · French
Montel · rank #50,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monothéistes
Nearest frequency peer: monothéistes (-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 « Montel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Miquel
Miquel
49,636 corpus weight
- mollahs
mollahs
49,635 corpus weight
- monothéistes
monothéistes
49,634 corpus weight
- Montel
Montel
49,633 corpus weight
- morgana
morgana
49,632 corpus weight
- Morice
Morice
49,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montel is uncommon French at frequency #50,368 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Montel in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Montel, spelled M-O-N-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Montel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gilles Perret a réuni Lætitia Dosch, Pierre Deladonchamps, Grégory Montel et Vincent Deniard pour un grand pied de nez à la morosité, avec cette histoire d’ouvriers d’une usine de Haute-Savoie qui se font passer pour des financiers, afin de racheter leur entreprise promise à un fonds d’investissement.
L’enquête avait été ouverte en mars 2017, après la dénonciation d’une ancienne élue Front national, Sophie Montel.
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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