Montherlant
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
- moniales
moniales
41,901 corpus weight
- monocoque
monocoque
41,900 corpus weight
- Monsters
Monsters
41,899 corpus weight
- Montherlant
Montherlant
41,898 corpus weight
- Morteau
Morteau
41,897 corpus weight
- MPEG
MPEG
41,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montherlant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montherlant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montherlant » en français
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
- 1Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise intégrée dans la commune de Saint-Crépin-Ibouvillers.
- 2Henry 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 exampleThese source excerpts show how Montherlant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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