Montpelliérain
\mɔ̃.pə.lje.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“Montpelliérain” is uncommon French (frequency #53,496 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,496
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de la ville de Montpellier (ville française de l’Hérault).
Corpus desk
Index FR-montpellierain · Montpelliérain · French
Montpelliérain · rank #53,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,496
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monthly
Nearest frequency peer: monthly (-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 « Montpelliérain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montero
montero
46,508 corpus weight
- Monterrey
Monterrey
46,507 corpus weight
- monthly
monthly
46,506 corpus weight
- Montpelliér…
Montpelliérain
46,505 corpus weight
- Montserrat
Montserrat
46,504 corpus weight
- monétiser
monétiser
46,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montpelliérain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montpelliérain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.pə.lje.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #53,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montpelliérain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montpelliérain is uncommon French at frequency #53,496 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.pə.lje.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de la ville de Montpellier (ville française de l’Hérault).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Montpelliérain in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Montpelliérain, spelled M-O-N-T-P-E-L-L-I-É-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de la ville de Montpellier (ville française de l’Hérault).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Montpelliérain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cerise sur la croquette, en décembre, le jeu, développé par les Montpelliérains de BlueTwelve Studio, a même raflé le prix du meilleur jeu indépendant aux Game Awards.
Avec trois réalisations en deux rencontres, il caracole en tête du classement des buteurs, à égalité avec le Monégasque Wissam Ben Yedder et le Montpelliérain Akor Adams, et va tenter de faire apprécier sa belle patte gauche à Marseille.
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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