Montreux
\mɔ̃.tʁø\
The verdict
“Montreux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,076. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,076
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-montreux · Montreux · French
Montreux · rank #32,076 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,076
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montagnards
Nearest frequency peer: montagnards (-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 « Montreux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- minus
minus
67,928 corpus weight
- moineau
moineau
67,927 corpus weight
- montagnards
montagnards
67,926 corpus weight
- Montreux
Montreux
67,925 corpus weight
- Montrouge
Montrouge
67,924 corpus weight
- mousseux
mousseux
67,922 corpus weight
What this shows « Montreux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Montreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tʁø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Montreux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Montreux (IPA \mɔ̃.tʁø\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,076 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Montreux, with forms such as "mmontreux", "mnotreux", and "monntreux". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "montrez", "montre", "montrer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is Montreux, spelled M-O-N-T-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
- 2Ville et commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmontreux
- mnotreux
- monntreux
- monrteux
- monterux
- montreuxx
- montrexu
- montrreux
- montruex
- monttreux
- motnreux
- omntreux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Montreux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Montreux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).