monteuse
\mɔ̃.tøz\
The verdict
“monteuse” is uncommon French (frequency #86,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrière qui monte des pierres fines, des pièces d’orfèvrerie, de machines, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monteuse · monteuse · French
monteuse · rank #86,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,935
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monothéismes
Nearest frequency peer: monothéismes (-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 « monteuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modernisant
modernisant
13,069 corpus weight
- modernisées
modernisées
13,068 corpus weight
- monothéismes
monothéismes
13,067 corpus weight
- monteuse
monteuse
13,066 corpus weight
- Montoire
Montoire
13,065 corpus weight
- montrerez
montrerez
13,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monteuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monteuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monteuse is uncommon French at frequency #86,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.tøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monteuse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is monteuse, spelled M-O-N-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrière qui monte des pierres fines, des pièces d’orfèvrerie, de machines, etc.
- 2Celle 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 monteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une fabrique de bijoux et Béatrice soudait l’or, l’argent, le cuivre, préparait les modèles pour les représentants. Elle était devenue une excellente monteuse en bijoux.
[…] elle me répondit que la monteuse avait la maladie de Parkinson et que c’était la raison pour laquelle le réalisateur avait voulue cette technicienne.
This word in other languages
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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