Montherlant

name

The verdict

“Montherlant” is uncommon French (frequency #58,103 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,103
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise intégrée dans la commune de Saint-Crépin-Ibouvillers.

Corpus desk

Index FR-montherlant · Montherlant · French

Montherlant · rank #58,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,103
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Monsters

Nearest frequency peer: Monsters (-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 « Montherlant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montherlant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Montherlant
PropertyValue
HeadwordMontherlant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters11
Frequency rank#58,103
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Montherlant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Montherlanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Monsters » (#58,102), « Morteau » (#58,104), « monocoque » (#58,101). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Montherlant » est au #58,103. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Montherlant is uncommon French at frequency #58,103 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Montherlant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Montherlant, spelled M-O-N-T-H-E-R-L-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise intégrée dans la commune de Saint-Crépin-Ibouvillers.
  2. 2
    Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) dit "Montherlant" (de son nom complet Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant), romancier, essayiste, dramaturge et académicien français. Le château du village a appartenu à ses ancêtres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Montherlant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des négociants viennent acheter à Méru les dentelles qu'ils ont commandées à S.-Crépin, à Valdampierre, à Lormaison, à Corbeil-Cerf, au Déluge, à Montherlant, à la Villeneuve-le-Roi. Les femmes gagnent par jour 10 à 12 sous; quelques unes sont payées 15 sous.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Montherlant"?
"Montherlant" is spelled M-O-N-T-H-E-R-L-A-N-T.
What does "Montherlant" mean?
As a proper noun, "Montherlant" means: Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise intégrée dans la commune de Saint-Crépin-Ibouvillers.
What language does "Montherlant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Montherlant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list