monthly

adj

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The verdict

“monthly” is uncommon French (frequency #53,495 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,495
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mensuel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-monthly · monthly · French

monthly · rank #53,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,495
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Monterrey

Nearest frequency peer: Monterrey (-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 « monthly »

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 « monthly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for monthly
PropertyValue
Headwordmonthly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,495
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « monthly » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Monterrey » (#53,494), « Montpelliérain » (#53,496), « montero » (#53,493). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « monthly » est au #53,495. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

monthly is uncommon French at frequency #53,495 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mensuel.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monthly, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is monthly, spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mensuel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Have you checked the monthly acounts?

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 "monthly"?
"monthly" is spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y.
What does "monthly" mean?
As an adjective, "monthly" means: Mensuel.
What language does "monthly" come from?
"monthly" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

montero#53,493Murillo#53,505mésange#53,508métayer#53,509

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list