monteur
\mɔ̃.tœʁ\
The verdict
“monteur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,047
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier qui monte des pierres fines, des pièces d’orfèvrerie, de machines, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monteur · monteur · French
monteur · rank #29,047 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,047
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monceau
Nearest frequency peer: monceau (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « monteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moe
moe
70,957 corpus weight
- mollets
mollets
70,956 corpus weight
- monceau
monceau
70,955 corpus weight
- monteur
monteur
70,954 corpus weight
- morton
morton
70,953 corpus weight
- motivant
motivant
70,952 corpus weight
What this shows « monteur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « monteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around monteur (IPA \mɔ̃.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,047 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for monteur, with forms such as "mmonteur", "mnoteur", and "monetur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moteur", "montez", "montrer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is monteur, spelled M-O-N-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier qui monte des pierres fines, des pièces d’orfèvrerie, de machines, etc.
- 2Celui qui est en charge d’assembler bout à bout plusieurs plans, issus du tournage, pour, lors du montage, former des séquences qui formeront à leur tour un film.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fils d’un ouvrier pauvre, Martial était presque devenu, à force de travail et d’économie, un ouvrier riche. Son père était monteur en bronze.
Mis au point dans les années 1980, le montage virtuel est non linéaire et permet de placer n’importe quel plan dans n’importe quel ordre sans que le monteur soit obligé de revoir chronologiquement toutes les séquences montées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonteur
- mnoteur
- monetur
- monnteur
- monteru
- monteurr
- montteur
- motneur
- omnteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monteur - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).