montrachet
\mɔ̃.ʁa.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“montrachet” is uncommon French (frequency #75,012 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,012
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin blanc produit à Puligny-Montrachet et à Chassagne-Montrachet en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montrachet · montrachet · French
montrachet · rank #75,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,012
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montet
Nearest frequency peer: Montet (-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 « montrachet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mollard
mollard
24,992 corpus weight
- Montet
Montet
24,990 corpus weight
- montrachet
montrachet
24,989 corpus weight
- Mopti
Mopti
24,988 corpus weight
- moraines
moraines
24,987 corpus weight
- morillon
morillon
24,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « montrachet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montrachet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.ʁa.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « montrachet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
montrachet is uncommon French at frequency #75,012 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.ʁa.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin blanc produit à Puligny-Montrachet et à Chassagne-Montrachet en France.".
No misspelling variants are generated for montrachet in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 montrachet, spelled M-O-N-T-R-A-C-H-E-T.
Definition
- 1Vin blanc produit à Puligny-Montrachet et à Chassagne-Montrachet en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how montrachet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne dirai rien non plus du montrachet que j'avais moi-même mis en bouteille, du vivant du père Lampen, en 1927, une bonne année.
Le canard aux olives embaumait, le vin, un petit Montrachet 1959, était toute douceur et toute flamme.
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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