Montpetit
The verdict
“Montpetit” is uncommon French (frequency #60,219 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,219
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montpetit · Montpetit · French
Montpetit · rank #60,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,219
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moraliser
Nearest frequency peer: moraliser (+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 « Montpetit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mong
mong
39,785 corpus weight
- monnayer
monnayer
39,784 corpus weight
- Montpetit
Montpetit
39,782 corpus weight
- moraliser
moraliser
39,781 corpus weight
- Moscow
Moscow
39,780 corpus weight
- mouchards
mouchards
39,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Montpetit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montpetit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Montpetit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Montpetit is uncommon French at frequency #60,219 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Montpetit has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Montpetit, spelled M-O-N-T-P-E-T-I-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Montpetit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les amours timides de deux ados (Sara Montpetit et Joseph Engel) se mêlent à une histoire de fantôme au bord d’un lac canadien.
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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