montjoie
\mɔ̃.ʒwa\
The verdict
“montjoie” is uncommon French (frequency #66,123 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,123
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre dressée, stèle, ou amoncellement de pierres servant à baliser un chemin de transhumance, un itinéraire de pèlerinage, à marquer la limite d’un territoire, à commémorer une bataille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montjoie · montjoie · French
montjoie · rank #66,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,123
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montgeron
Nearest frequency peer: Montgeron (-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 « montjoie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Moana
Moana
33,881 corpus weight
- modélisé
modélisé
33,880 corpus weight
- Montgeron
Montgeron
33,879 corpus weight
- montjoie
montjoie
33,878 corpus weight
- morde
morde
33,877 corpus weight
- morphologiq…
morphologiquement
33,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « montjoie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montjoie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « montjoie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
montjoie is uncommon French at frequency #66,123 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ʒwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for montjoie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is montjoie, spelled M-O-N-T-J-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre dressée, stèle, ou amoncellement de pierres servant à baliser un chemin de transhumance, un itinéraire de pèlerinage, à marquer la limite d’un territoire, à commémorer une bataille.
- 2Monceau, importante quantité.
- 3Bannière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how montjoie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une montjoie de plaisirs.
De même, à la guerre, montjoie signifiait la bannière qui indiquait marche de l'armée.
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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