Montignac
\mɔ̃.ti.njak\
The verdict
“Montignac” is uncommon French (frequency #55,449 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,449
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montignac · Montignac · French
Montignac · rank #55,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,449
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monopolise
Nearest frequency peer: monopolise (-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 « Montignac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modernistes
modernistes
44,557 corpus weight
- moldaves
moldaves
44,555 corpus weight
- monogame
monogame
44,554 corpus weight
- monopolise
monopolise
44,553 corpus weight
- Montignac
Montignac
44,552 corpus weight
- Mowgli
Mowgli
44,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montignac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montignac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ti.njak\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montignac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montignac is uncommon French at frequency #55,449 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ti.njak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Montignac has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Montignac, spelled M-O-N-T-I-G-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Pyrénées.
- 3Ancien nom de la commune française Montignac-Lascaux.
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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