montrer

/\mɔ̃.tʁe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#984

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

montrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire voir ; exposer aux regards. Pronounced \mɔ̃.tʁe\. It ranks #984 in French word frequency. Often confused with mother and montrez.

Key facts for montrer
PropertyValue
Headwordmontrer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɔ̃.tʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#984
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of montrer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for montrer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ̃.tʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #984 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for montrer, with forms such as "mmontrer", "mnotrer", and "monntrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mother", "montrez", "mortier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is montrer, spelled M-O-N-T-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire voir ; exposer aux regards.
  2. 2
    Faire voir par un geste, indiquer.
  3. 3
    Faire paraître ; manifester.
  4. 4
    Donner des marques, des preuves de quelque qualité bonne ou mauvaise.
  5. 5
    Faire connaître ; prouver ; démontrer.
  6. 6
    Enseigner.
  7. 7
    Faire contenance, paraître, dans les occasions qui exigent de la résolution et de la fermeté.
  8. 8
    Manifester par son attitude qu’on est décidé à agir, à réclamer son droit, à ne pas laisser faire une chose qu’on désapprouve, à en favoriser une qu’on approuve.
  9. 9
    Faire voir par des actes ce que l’on est.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmontrer,mnotrer,monntrer,monrter,monterr,montrerr,montrrer,monttrer,motnrer,omntrer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for montrer

Misspelling Variants of "montrer"

mmontrer8mnotrer7monntrer8monrter7monterr7montrerr8montrrer8monttrer8
Misspelling Variants of "montrer"

Frequency rank: #984 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "montrer"?
"montrer" is spelled M-O-N-T-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ̃.tʁe\.
What does "montrer" mean?
As a verb, "montrer" means: Faire voir ; exposer aux regards.
What words are commonly confused with "montrer"?
"montrer" is commonly confused with "mother", "montrez", "mortier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "montrer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "montrer" is \mɔ̃.tʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "montrer" come from?
"montrer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.