monticules
\mɔ̃.ti.kyl\
The verdict
“monticules” is uncommon French (frequency #66,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de monticule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monticules · monticules · French
monticules · rank #66,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,921
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montalivet
Nearest frequency peer: Montalivet (-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 « monticules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moms
moms
33,084 corpus weight
- monochromes
monochromes
33,083 corpus weight
- monothéiste
monothéiste
33,082 corpus weight
- Montalivet
Montalivet
33,081 corpus weight
- monticules
monticules
33,080 corpus weight
- moralisme
moralisme
33,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monticules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monticules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ti.kyl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monticules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monticules is uncommon French at frequency #66,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ti.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de monticule.".
No misspelling variants are generated for monticules in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is monticules, spelled M-O-N-T-I-C-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de monticule.
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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