Montoire
\mɔ̃t.waʁ\
The verdict
“Montoire” is uncommon French (frequency #86,936 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,936
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom abrégé de Montoire-sur-le-Loir, commune située dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montoire · Montoire · French
Montoire · rank #86,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,936
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monteuse
Nearest frequency peer: monteuse (-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 « Montoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modernisant
modernisant
13,069 corpus weight
- modernisées
modernisées
13,068 corpus weight
- monothéismes
monothéismes
13,067 corpus weight
- monteuse
monteuse
13,066 corpus weight
- Montoire
Montoire
13,065 corpus weight
- montrerez
montrerez
13,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃t.waʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montoire is uncommon French at frequency #86,936 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ̃t.waʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom abrégé de Montoire-sur-le-Loir, commune située dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Montoire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Montoire, spelled M-O-N-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom abrégé de Montoire-sur-le-Loir, commune située dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Montoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louis Lambert naquit, en 1797, à Montoire, petite ville du Vendômois, où son père exploitait une tannerie de médiocre importance et comptait faire de lui son successeur.
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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