Montréal

\mɔ̃.ʁe.al\

/\mɔ̃.ʁe.al\/ name

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The verdict

“Montréal” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,036
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Métropole de la province de Québec.

Corpus desk

Index FR-montreal · Montréal · French

Montréal · rank #1,036 · 13 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,036
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH ministère

Nearest frequency peer: ministère (-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 « Montréal »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Montréal » 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).

Montréal vs montrer
50% similar
Montréal vs montrez
50% similar
Montréal vs montrée
63% similar

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

Key facts for Montréal
PropertyValue
HeadwordMontréal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\mɔ̃.ʁe.al\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,036
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Montréal »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Montréalse 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 « ministère » (#1,035), « neuf » (#1,037), « membre » (#1,034). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Montréal » est au #1,036. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Montréal (IPA \mɔ̃.ʁe.al\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,036 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Montréal, with forms such as "mmontréal", "mnotréal", and "monntréal". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "montrer", "montrez", "montrée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists 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 Montréal, spelled M-O-N-T-R-É-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Métropole de la province de Québec.
  2. 2
    Commune française, située dans le département de l’Ardèche.
  3. 3
    Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
  4. 4
    Commune française, située dans le département du Gers.
  5. 5
    Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.
  6. 6
    Ancien nom de la commune française Montréal-la-Cluse.
  7. 7
    Forme courte de Montréal-les-Sources.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je reviendrai à Montréal Dans un grand Boeing bleu de mer ; J’ai besoin de revoir l’hiver Et ses aurores boréales.
  2. Demain matin, Montréal m’attend

Synonyms

ville aux cent clochers

This word in other languages

Montreal(English)Montreal(Español)Montreal(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmontréal
  • mnotréal
  • monntréal
  • monrtéal
  • montraél
  • montreal
  • montrréal
  • montréall
  • montréla
  • monttréal
  • montéral
  • motnréal
  • omntréal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Montréal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

mmontréal1mnotréal2monntréal1monrtéal2montraél2montreal1montrréal1montréall1
Edit distance from "Montréal"

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 "Montréal"?
"Montréal" is spelled M-O-N-T-R-É-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.ʁe.al\.
What does "Montréal" mean?
As a proper noun, "Montréal" means: Métropole de la province de Québec.
What words are commonly confused with "Montréal"?
"Montréal" is commonly confused with "montrer", "montrez", "montrée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Montréal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Montréal" is \mɔ̃.ʁe.al\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Montréal" come from?
"Montréal" 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 "Montréal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

objectif#1,038mauvaise#1,033relation#1,041vacances#1,050

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

relations13 variantscontinuer13 variantsexpliquer13 variantsindustrie13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list