montrais
\mɔ̃.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“montrais” is uncommon French (frequency #56,759 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,759
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montrais · montrais · French
montrais · rank #56,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,759
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mota
Nearest frequency peer: mota (+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 « montrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mommy
mommy
43,245 corpus weight
- monoplaces
monoplaces
43,244 corpus weight
- montrais
montrais
43,242 corpus weight
- mota
mota
43,241 corpus weight
- motiv
motiv
43,240 corpus weight
- mouillent
mouillent
43,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « montrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « montrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
montrais is uncommon French at frequency #56,759 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ̃.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
montrais has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is montrais, spelled M-O-N-T-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de montrer.
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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