Montferrand
\mɔ̃.fe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Montferrand” is uncommon French (frequency #70,860 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,860
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département de l’Aude, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montferrand · Montferrand · French
Montferrand · rank #70,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,860
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Monteiro
Nearest frequency peer: Monteiro (-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 « Montferrand »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mohr
Mohr
29,144 corpus weight
- monsieurs
monsieurs
29,143 corpus weight
- Monteiro
Monteiro
29,142 corpus weight
- Montferrand
Montferrand
29,141 corpus weight
- MOOCs
MOOCs
29,140 corpus weight
- Morgenstern
Morgenstern
29,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montferrand » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montferrand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.fe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montferrand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montferrand is uncommon French at frequency #70,860 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃.fe.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Montferrand has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Montferrand, spelled M-O-N-T-F-E-R-R-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département de l’Aude, en France.
- 2Village de la Drôme intégrée à Montferrand-la-Fare.
- 3Quartier et canton de Clermont-Ferrand
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Montferrand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grands-jours d’Auvergne, sont ceux qui se tinrent dans cette province, tant à Clermont & Montferrand, qu’à Riom. Il y en eut à Montferrand en 1454, & sous Louis XI. en 1481, tant pour l’Auvergne que pour le Bourbonnois, Nivernois, Lyonnois, Forez, Beaujolois & la Marche ; ils s’ouvrirent à Montferrand : on les y tint encore en 1520, & à Riom en 1542 & 154…
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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