montraient

\mɔ̃.tʁɛ\

/\mɔ̃.tʁɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“montraient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,790
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-montraient · montraient · French

montraient · rank #20,790 · 15 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,790
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH monologue

Nearest frequency peer: monologue (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « montraient »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « montraient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

montraient vs montrent
80% similar
montraient vs montrant
80% similar
montraient vs montrait
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for montraient
PropertyValue
Headwordmontraient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɔ̃.tʁɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,790
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « montraient »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.montraientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « monologue » (#20,789), « Mossoul » (#20,791), « minecraft » (#20,788). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « montraient » est au #20,790. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around montraient (IPA \mɔ̃.tʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,790 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for montraient, with forms such as "mmontraient", "mnotraient", and "monntraient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "montrent", "montrant", "montrait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is montraient, spelled M-O-N-T-R-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how montraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quelques légères mousses, de maigres graminées, verdissaient çà et là, et de petites fleurs, presque incolores, montraient leur humide corolle entre les cailloux.
  2. Le professeur Albers (de Bonn), a vu sur cet animal le cœur se spasmodiser, pâlir et diminuer de volume dans le même moment que des contractions convulsives se montraient dans les membres.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmontraient
  • mnotraient
  • monntraient
  • monrtaient
  • montarient
  • montraeint
  • montraiennt
  • montraientt
  • montraietn
  • montrainet
  • montriaent
  • montrraient
  • monttraient
  • motnraient
  • omntraient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of montraient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

mmontraient1mnotraient2monntraient1monrtaient2montarient2montraeint2montraiennt1montraientt1
Edit distance from "montraient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "montraient"?
"montraient" is spelled M-O-N-T-R-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.tʁɛ\.
What does "montraient" mean?
As a verb, "montraient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.
What words are commonly confused with "montraient"?
"montraient" is commonly confused with "montrent", "montrant", "montrait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "montraient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "montraient" is \mɔ̃.tʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "montraient" come from?
"montraient" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "montraient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

nourrisson#20,798patronales#20,810journalier#20,769prototypes#20,824

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

mentionnent15 variantspossédaient15 variantspoursuivait15 variantsprésentez15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list